503 Service Unavailable - error while accessing api to fetch today fitbit reading

[jjoseph1984]

Fit Bit Device - Versa 2 

API - https://api.fitbit.com/{}/user/{}/activities/steps/date/today/{}.json while invoking this api , getting given error below occasionally -  503 Service Unavailable 

Question 1 - Why is it happening ?

Question 2 - Does this force the user to logging again , any auto log off happened ?

[JohnFitbit]

Hi @jjoseph1984,

Welcome to the forums!

A 503 typically means the data is unavailable or maintenance is occurring. Can you PM me your client ID, and the timestamps of when you received these errors? I can check our logs to see if it lined up with any outages/server maintenance.

503s don't force users to log out of their app. It just means the service is not available and is unreachable.

Thanks!

[jjoseph1984]

Thanks for the reply - > client ID let me discuss with the team and send you ..