# Interactions API test should show specific errors like legacy API

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/interactions-api-test-should-show-specific-errors-like-legacy-api/413130
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [September 23, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interactions-api-test-should-show-specific-errors-like-legacy-api/413130 "2026-09-23T16:00:32Z")
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### Author: ![RBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/interactions-api-test-should-show-specific-errors-like-legacy-api/413130/1 "2026-09-23T16:00:32Z")

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As the topic says, legacy API shows details errors like this when testing the API setup:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/f/6/3f60be4046d0b97652a19856be45f13da420af74.png)

Where as the interactions API shows this

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/9/c/59c9c2989aade8e8a2f971e5ea7e103bc17ccf56.png)

Then one has to got to the logs figure things out,

```plaintext
DiscourseAi::Completions::Endpoints::GeminiInteractions: status: 503 - body: {"error":{"message":"gemini-3.8-flash is currently experiencing high demand, spikes in demand are usually temporary. Please try again later.","code":"service_unavailable"}}

```