# Mender-client 3.5.2 receive "503 Service Unavailable" on update-check \[Sync\]

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-client-3-5-2-receive-503-service-unavailable-on-update-check-sync/6789>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [May 4, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-client-3-5-2-receive-503-service-unavailable-on-update-check-sync/6789 "2024-05-04T11:25:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![sbrw](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/sbrw/32/1918_2.png) [@sbrw](https://hub.mender.io/u/sbrw)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-client-3-5-2-receive-503-service-unavailable-on-update-check-sync/6789/1 "2024-05-04T11:25:35Z")

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Hi!

The mender-client on our devices receive “503” from time to time when doing the periodic update checks.

What could be the issue?

Thanks!

```auto
level=info msg="State transition: check-wait [Idle] -> update-check [Sync]"
level=error msg="Post \"https://hosted.mender.io/api/devices/v2/deployments/device/deployments/next\": EOF" thread=proxy
level=error msg="Error receiving scheduled update data: failed to check update info on the server. Response: &{503 Service Unavailable 503 HTTP/1.1 1 1 map[Content-Length:[88] Content-Type:[text/plain; charset=utf-8] Date:[Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:11:40 GMT] X-Content-Type-Options:[nosniff]] 0x121c0f0 88 [] false false map[] 0x1204200 <nil>}"
level=error msg="Update check failed: transient error: failed to check update info on the server. Response: &{503 Service Unavailable 503 HTTP/1.1 1 1 map[Content-Length:[88] Content-Type:[text/plain; charset=utf-8] Date:[Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:11:40 GMT] X-Content-Type-Options:[nosniff]] 0x121c0f0 88 [] false false map[] 0x1204200 <nil>}"
level=info msg="State transition: update-check [Sync] -> error [Error]"
level=info msg="Handling error state, current error: transient error: failed to check update info on the server. Response: &{503 Service Unavailable 503 HTTP/1.1 1 1 map[Content-Length:[88] Content-Type:[text/plain; charset=utf-8] Date:[Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:11:40 GMT] X-Content-Type-Options:[nosniff]] 0x121c0f0 88 [] false false map[] 0x1204200 <nil>}"
level=info msg="State transition: error [Error] -> idle [Idle]"
level=info msg="State transition: idle [Idle] -> check-wait [Idle]"

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**Author:** ![sbrw](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/sbrw/32/1918_2.png) [@sbrw](https://hub.mender.io/u/sbrw)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 9:35am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-client-3-5-2-receive-503-service-unavailable-on-update-check-sync/6789/2 "2024-05-16T09:35:34Z")

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This is happening more frequently since a couple of weeks ago. Retrying update-check solves it after a few attempts.

Recent changes at hosted mender that introduced this?