# Statuses

| Status                | Meaning                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| live                  | API is deployed and ready to serve requests (at least one replica is running)                                                                                                                        |
| updating              | API is updating                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| error                 | API was not created due to an error; run `cortex logs <name>` to view the logs                                                                                                                       |
| error (image pull)    | API was not created because one of the specified Docker images was inaccessible at runtime; check that your API's docker images exist and are accessible via your cluster operator's AWS credentials |
| error (out of memory) | API was terminated due to excessive memory usage; try allocating more memory to the API and re-deploying                                                                                             |
| compute unavailable   | API could not start due to insufficient memory, CPU, GPU, or Inf in the cluster; some replicas may be ready                                                                                          |


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