When Cloud Services Typically Have Issues
Cloud platforms face issues during deployments, region failovers, and capacity surges.
Schedule critical deployments for low-traffic windows. Have multi-region fallback.
Tavily AI Search Not Working? What to Do
Good News: Tavily AI Search is currently working normally. If you're still facing issues, try these steps:
- Check your API key is valid
- Verify your account quota/limits
- Clear browser cache
- Try different browser
- Check internet connection
- Restart the application
- Restart your router/modem
Cloud Platform Service Patterns
Cloud platforms maintain extremely high availability SLAs with region-specific maintenance and transparent status pages.
Cloud platform outages cascade to thousands of downstream services. Check the provider's official status page for authoritative info. Multi-region architectures are unaffected by single-region failures.
Frequently Asked Questions
AI Service Issues — Alternatives
AI platform at capacity or down? Here are alternatives.
Try competing AI services — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. as alternatives
Rate limiting ≠ outage — wait a few minutes and retry with shorter prompts
Check platform's status page for capacity/degradation notices
Save important outputs locally — don't rely on conversation history during outages
API users: implement retry with exponential backoff for rate limits
AI Service Down — When to Worry
AI platform outage severity guide for users and developers.
Rate limiting or brief overload. Retry with exponential backoff.
Switch to alternative model/provider if available. Check status page.
Contact support (enterprise). Activate fallback provider if integrated.
Review SLA for credits. Plan multi-provider redundancy to prevent recurrence.
AI services have variable SLAs — enterprise tiers typically guarantee 99.9%. Always have a fallback model configured.
