How to Revoke Metricfixer Access After Work Is Completed

Use this guide after a Metricfixer ticket, diagnostic review, implementation, emergency hotfix, or warranty check is completed. It helps you remove temporary access, rotate temporary credentials, and keep only the access that is still required for your own systems.

When to use this guide

Use this checklist when Metricfixer has finished a support request and you no longer need us to inspect, modify, deploy, test, or monitor your project.

• A ticket or paid work stage has been completed.
• An emergency production hotfix is finished.
• A staging or preview deployment has been reviewed.
• A warranty check has been completed.
• You want to clean up old support users, SSH keys, deploy keys, tokens, or platform invitations.

What to revoke first

Start with the highest-risk access and then continue with lower-risk accounts and invitations.

1. Production server access, SSH users, SFTP users, VPN accounts, and remote desktop access.
2. Cloud infrastructure access, IAM users, service accounts, API tokens, and temporary deployment roles.
3. Database users, database dumps, backup links, and temporary data exports.
4. GitHub repository access, deploy keys, fine-grained personal access tokens, and temporary GitHub App installations.
5. CMS, ecommerce, Shopify, WordPress, WooCommerce, and hosting panel accounts.
6. Analytics, tag management, advertising, CRM, consent, and tracking platform access.
7. Temporary test accounts, shared preview links, test payment links, and temporary credentials created for the ticket.

GitHub cleanup

• Remove the Metricfixer user or team from repositories where access is no longer needed.
• Remove temporary outside collaborators from personal or organization repositories.
• Delete temporary deploy keys that were created only for this support ticket.
• Revoke fine-grained personal access tokens or GitHub App permissions that are no longer required.
• Check that production branches are still protected and that direct pushes are not enabled unnecessarily.
• Keep merged pull requests and issue history for auditability unless your internal policy requires otherwise.

Server, SSH, and SFTP cleanup

• Disable or delete temporary users such as metricfixer-deploy, metricfixer-support, or ticket-specific users.
• Remove Metricfixer SSH public keys from authorized_keys files if the user account is kept for another reason.
• Remove temporary sudo rules, deploy scripts, firewall allowances, VPN accounts, and IP allowlist entries.
• Disable password login if it was enabled only for temporary support.
• Review recent login and deploy logs for the completion window.
• Remove temporary files, archive folders, diagnostic scripts, and exported logs that are no longer needed.

Database cleanup

• Disable or delete temporary database users created for diagnostics, staging, migration, or repair.
• Remove read-only production database users if they were created only for this ticket.
• Rotate any temporary database passwords that were shared for the task.
• Delete temporary database dumps, exports, backup links, and local copies if they are no longer required.
• Keep only the backups required by your own retention, compliance, warranty, or rollback policy.

CMS, ecommerce, and hosting cleanup

• Remove temporary WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, CMS, or hosting panel users.
• Revoke Shopify collaborator access when the store work is complete.
• Disable WordPress application passwords or API credentials created for support.
• Remove temporary SFTP or file manager accounts from hosting panels.
• Delete duplicate staging themes or test plugins only after you confirm they are no longer needed.
• Keep completed production changes, approved theme versions, and deployment history for audit purposes.

Analytics, advertising, and tracking cleanup

• Remove Metricfixer access from GA4, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads, Merchant Center, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Microsoft Ads, CRM, consent, and call tracking platforms where access is no longer needed.
• Downgrade access instead of deleting it only if you have an active support subscription or an agreed monitoring arrangement.
• Review GTM workspaces, preview versions, unpublished changes, and container versions.
• Remove temporary API tokens, conversion API credentials, offline conversion upload credentials, and test integrations that are no longer required.
• Keep published container versions, analytics change history, and advertising account change history where the platform provides it.

Cloud infrastructure cleanup

• Remove temporary IAM users, service accounts, access keys, and resource-scoped roles that were created for the ticket.
• Deactivate access keys before deleting them if you need a short validation period.
• Remove temporary Kubernetes users, kubeconfig files, service accounts, role bindings, and namespace permissions.
• Remove temporary Cloudflare, DNS, CDN, WAF, logging, monitoring, and deployment platform permissions.
• Check whether any long-lived secrets were created and rotate them if they are no longer trusted.
• Keep OIDC-based deployment roles only if they are part of your ongoing approved deployment workflow.

Secrets and token rotation

If a credential was created only for Metricfixer, revoke it. If a credential existed before the ticket and was shared during the work, rotate it where practical.

• Rotate passwords that were typed, pasted, emailed, or sent in a ticket.
• Rotate API keys, webhook secrets, database passwords, SMTP passwords, and private tokens that were exposed during the task.
• Replace production secrets that were accidentally added to a repository, ticket attachment, screenshot, log, or chat message.
• Update application environment variables after rotation and run a smoke test.
• Do not keep shared credentials active “just in case”. Create new limited access when future work starts.

Remote access cleanup

• Close AnyDesk, remote desktop, VPN, bastion, or screen-sharing sessions.
• Remove temporary remote access permissions and unattended access settings if they were enabled.
• Check that no temporary remote support tool was left running unnecessarily.

Keep useful records

Revoking access should not delete the work history that you may need later.

• Keep the ticket number, pull request links, deployment notes, and completion message.
• Keep the final approved configuration or container version.
• Keep backup references according to your own retention policy.
• Keep a record of which access was revoked and when.

Final verification checklist

• Metricfixer users, collaborators, keys, and tokens are removed or downgraded.
• Temporary production access is closed.
• Temporary database access is closed.
• Temporary cloud and hosting access is closed.
• Shared credentials were rotated where needed.
• The website, checkout, tracking, forms, scheduled jobs, and deployment process still work after cleanup.
• You have saved the ticket history, PR links, deployment notes, and final configuration references.