---
title: Weaviate API Errorspublic
description: Common HTTP status codes and error responses for the Vector Databases API when managing Weaviate clusters.
product: Vector Databases
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/vector-databases/weaviate/reference/api-errors/
last_updated: "2018-06-26"
---

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# Weaviate API Errors (public)

DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is a fully managed Weaviate vector database for retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and similarity-based AI workloads. Clusters are provisioned, secured, backed up, and patched by DigitalOcean.

The Vector Databases API returns standard HTTP status codes. When a request fails, inspect the `error` field in the response body for details.

## HTTP Status Codes

| HTTP code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 200 | Success. |
| 400 | Bad request. Inspect the `error` field for the parameter at fault. |
| 401 | Unauthorized. The DigitalOcean API token is missing or invalid. |
| 403 | Forbidden. Your account is not eligible to create Managed Weaviate clusters during [public preview](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md#public-preview). |
| 404 | The cluster does not exist or is not owned by your account. |
| 429 | Rate limited. Back off and retry with exponential delay. |
| 500 | Internal error. Open a support ticket with the request ID. |

## Common Error Bodies

Invalid cluster name:

```json
{
  "error": "name must be 3-30 characters, start with a letter, and contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens"
}
```

Unavailable region:

```json
{
  "error": "region 'xyz1' is not available for vector databases"
}
```

Unsupported resize:

```json
{
  "error": "cannot resize from 'large' to 'small'; only upgrades are supported"
}
```

For the full endpoint list and request schemas, see [Vector Databases API reference](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/reference/vector-databases/index.html.md).