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General·HTTP 503·API, CLI, FE

Service unavailable

service_unavailable

The service cannot handle the request right now. This is temporary.

What this means​

Part of ComputeSphere is restarting, is under maintenance, or is briefly overloaded.

How to fix it​

Wait a moment and try again. If a Retry-After header is present, wait that long.

Retry behavior​

Retry after a short wait, or after the Retry-After interval.

How it appears in the response​

ComputeSphere returns errors as RFC 7807 Problem Details. The type field is the docs URL for this page — switch on code in your client.

{
  "type":    "https://docs.computesphere.com/errors/service_unavailable",
  "title":   "Service unavailable",
  "status":  503,
  "code":    "service_unavailable",
  "detail":  "The service cannot handle the request right now. This is temporary.",
  "instance": "/v2/…",
  "request_id": "f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
  "trace_id":   null,
  "retry_after_seconds": 60
}

The Content-Type header is application/problem+json. On field-level validation errors a non-empty errors[] array also appears, each entry carrying its own docs_url for the offending field.