# \[API\] Error 500: The software powering this discussion forum encountered an unexpected problem

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 31, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-error-500-the-software-powering-this-discussion-forum-encountered-an-unexpected-problem/88843 "2018-05-31T14:38:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![blake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blake/32/157322_2.png) [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-error-500-the-software-powering-this-discussion-forum-encountered-an-unexpected-problem/88843/2 "2018-05-31T14:48:45Z")

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I’m really not sure. You might need to go to `/logs` and see if you can see a better error message with a little bit more detail. It could not like the title or the body of the post or any number of things, but I think those wouldn’t throw a 500. It could be overloading your db and server especially if you have sidekiq running as well.

Is there reason why you are creating a posts/topics every 2 seconds via the api? Maybe it would be better to write an import script and run it on the server with sidekiq off.

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