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API returns 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, nginx
Domain
api, backend, infrastructure

Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure with curl against https://api.foojay.io/disco/ and determine whether the API or the nginx layer is returning the 503. Trace the service and deployment configuration to identify the outage cause; done means the endpoint returns its normal API response reliably instead of the nginx error page.

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Description

API return 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable again

$ curl "https://api.foojay.io/disco/"
<html>
<head><title>503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
Dominant language
Java
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Forks
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