Instance Statuses

The status of an instance reflects the health of the instance. You can use the management console or API to view the status of a DB instance.

DB Instance Status

**Table 1** Status and description
Status	Description
Available	A DB instance is running properly.
Abnormal	A DB instance is faulty.
Creating	A DB instance is being created.
Creation failed	A DB instance fails to be created.
Backing up	An instance backup is being created.
Restarting	A DB instance is being restarted because of a modification that requires restarting it for the modification to take effect.
Switchover in progress	The primary and standby nodes of the replica set instance or the primary and standby shards or configs of a cluster instance are being switched over.
Adding node	shard or dds mongos nodes are being added to a DDS cluster instance.
Deleting node	The node that failed to be added is being deleted.
Scaling up	The storage space of instance nodes is being expanded.
Changing instance class	The CPU or memory of a DB instance is being changed.
Changing to yearly/monthly	The billing mode is being changed from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
Checking restoration	The backup of the current DB instance is being restored to a new DB instance.
Restoring	The backup is being restored to the existing DB instance.
Restore failed	Restoring to the existing DB instance failed.
Switching SSL	The SSL channel is being enabled or disabled.
Querying original slow query logs	Show Original Log is being enabled or disabled.
Changing private IP address	The private IP address of a node is being changed.
Changing port	The DB instance port is being changed.
Changing a security group	The security group is being changed.
Frozen	DB instances are frozen when there is no balance in the account.
Minor version upgrade	The minor version upgrade is in progress.
Checking changes	Status of a yearly/monthly instance when the billing mode is being changed.