# `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE` Temporarily unavailable

Source: https://checkslip.com/en/problems/service-unavailable

- **HTTP status**: `503`
- **Credit**: No credit taken

## Meaning

We could not handle this request just now. It was not processed and no credit was used.

## Cause

A temporary fault on our side.

## Fix

Retry after a short wait with increasing back-off; if it lasts, contact the team with the `X-Request-Id`. This answer is not remembered, so a retry counts as a new request (a new request_id) even with the same `Idempotency-Key`.

## Example response

```
{
  "type": "https://checkslip.com/problems/service-unavailable",
  "title": "Temporarily unavailable",
  "status": 503,
  "instance": "01a18600-0000-7000-8000-000000000000",
  "code": "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE"
}
```