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Hey there, we are seeing 503 errors with Prefect.

Hey, your prefect client is connecting to an ephemeral API server not prefect cloud. You're likely not logged in so `PREFECT_API_URL` is not set to cloud the url

Correct! Is there some other way to login than the CLI?

Sorry I may be misunderstanding, but assuming you're trying to connect to prefect cloud you can do so with `prefect cloud login` or by setting `PREFECT_API_URL` and `PREFECT_API_KEY` manually

Hey <@U02EBC3N05N> where do I set the these variables?

e.g `PREFECT_API_URL` and `PREFECT_API_KEY`?

you can set them as env vars or you can add them to your prefect profile with e.x.“prefect config set PREFECT_API_URL=…”