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title = "HTTP 403: Maintenance"
weight = 99
updated = 2023-06-13

aliases = ["/docs/http-403-maintenance.html"]
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In some rare cases, the Bonsai Ops Team will put a cluster into maintenance mode. There are a lot of reasons this may happen:

- Load shedding
- Data migrations
- Rolling restarts
- Version upgrades
- ... and more.

Maintenance mode blocks updates to the cluster, but not searches. If you're seeing this message, it will be temporary; it rarely lasts for more than a minute or two. If your cluster has been in a maintenance state for more than a few minutes, please [contact support](mailto:support@bonsai.io).