# Keep getting 500 errors

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/keep-getting-500-errors/11894>\
**Category:** Getting Started with Alpaca\
**Created:** [February 22, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/keep-getting-500-errors/11894 "2023-02-22T16:06:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/keep-getting-500-errors/11894/1 "2023-02-22T16:06:10Z")

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Anyone else experiencing this issue today?

I keep getting this error:

raise APIError(error, http\_error)  
alpaca.common.exceptions.APIError: {“code”:50010000,“message”:“internal server error occurred”}

Wondering if there’s maintenance and I missed the announcement or something?

**Edit:** [https://status.alpaca.markets/](https://status.alpaca.markets/) this says that the API is great, it clearly is not, it keeps throwing 500 errors. I’m concerned that there’s a status monitoring functionality that seemingly is not representative of anything.

**Edit2:** I’ve had to scrub today entirely, not the end of the world and I’ll put in better error handling but I ran these for weeks now with no issue. I’d just like to know if there are stability issues happening or if I’m screwing something up.