Server Statuses and Lifecycle States Explained
Overview
Because CloudAIPilot manages infrastructure asynchronously, servers move through specific lifecycle states. Understanding these states is critical for diagnosing issues.
The Statuses
- Provisioning: The VM is being created by the cloud provider.
- Configuring: The VM is booted, and CloudAIPilot is installing the Agent and OS packages.
- Running: The server is healthy, the Agent is connected, and metrics are flowing.
- Offline: The server is powered off at the cloud provider level, or the network is entirely disconnected.
- Degraded: The server is online, but a critical service (like Docker or Nginx) has crashed, or disk space is above 95%.
- Archived: The server has been gracefully disconnected from CloudAIPilot management, but still exists in the cloud provider.
How the AI Pilot Reacts
If a server enters the Degraded state, the AI Pilot will automatically generate an alert. Depending on your configuration, it may also generate an Approval Card suggesting a safe reboot or an automatic disk cleanup.