service_degraded

The service is operating in a degraded mode and temporarily rejected the request.

HTTP	code	Retryable?
503	service_degraded	yes

When it happens

Load-shedding protection or a degraded dependency.

How to resolve it

Retry with backoff, respecting Retry-After.

Example

{
  "type": "https://docs.skipo.com/errors/service_degraded",
  "title": "Service degraded",
  "status": 503,
  "code": "service_degraded",
  "retryable": true,
  "detail": "The service is operating in a degraded mode and temporarily rejected the request."
}

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