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Hello Prefect Community. I’m Jace and our organization recently started integrating prefect into our suite of data pipeline tools. One task that I am working on right now involves using the REST API to create a flow run (it will be triggered by another piece of software we have) and instantly run the flow run. When using the API i get a 503 and `{'exception_message': 'Service Unavailable'}` . Is there somewhere I can check the status of the API? Or maybe there is a better practice to run a flow from an outside trigger. I am open to other ideas. Thank you.

How are you using it , what payload / endpoint? 

The flow i would like to create a run for is in Prefect Cloud, and I am using the <https://app.prefect.cloud/api/docs#tag/Flow-Runs|/flow_runs/ endpoint>.

Have you used <https://app.prefect.cloud/api/docs?deviceId=0f152d6a-01c5-4493-bc1e-0c2918410fa8&amp;deviceId=0f152d6a-01c5-4493-bc1e-0c2918410fa8>?
There is the `create_flow_run_from_deployment` endpoint:
<https://app.prefect.cloud/api/docs?deviceId=0f152d6a-01c5-4493-bc1e-0c2918410fa8&amp;deviceId=0f152d6a-01c5-4493-bc1e-0c2918410fa8#tag/Deployments/operation/create_flow_run_from_deployment_api_accounts__account_id__workspaces__workspace_id__deployments__id__create_flow_run_post|https://app.prefect.cloud/api/docs?deviceId=0f152d6a-01c5-4493-bc1e-0c2918410fa8&amp;deviceId=0f152d6a-01c5-4493-bc1e-0c2918410fa8#tag/Deplo[…]_run_post>

Thank you <@U03FKQX1TH9>. This was the issue. I was using the incorrect endpoint. This now works. Thanks for your help here.