Service temporarily unavailable

HTTP status: 503 Retryable: Yes

Description

The service is temporarily down for maintenance or experiencing high load. Your request cannot be processed at this time.

Resolution

Retry with exponential backoff. Check the Blockdaemon status page for any ongoing incidents before retrying aggressively.

Example response

{
  "error": {
    "code": "service_unavailable",
    "docUrl": "https://docs.blockdaemon.com/errors/service_unavailable",
    "message": "The service is temporarily unavailable, please try again later",
    "occurredAt": "2026-02-10T10:00:00Z",
    "requestId": "req_abc123xyz",
    "status": 503
  }
}