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url: /guide/statuses.md
description: >-
  The status vocabulary shared by the panel and the CLI; every state is a glyph
  plus a colour.
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# Statuses

Every state in Duploy is a glyph plus a colour, so it reads without colour
too. The panel, these docs and the CLI share one vocabulary.

| Shape | Means |
|---|---|
| ● round | Alive |
| ◐ half | In progress |
| ■ square | Stopped |
| ✕ cross | Failed |
| ◇ diamond | Scheduled |
| ▸ arrow | Job step |

## Alive

| Status | Means |
|---|---|
|  | The instance is up and passing its health check |
|  | Health check passing |
|  | The job finished |
|  | The certificate is live |
|  | Up, but failing its health check |

## In progress

| Status | Means |
|---|---|
|  | Accepted, waiting for a worker |
|  | Building the image |
|  | Rolling out a new release |
|  | Container started, waiting for health |
|  | A new database is being created |
|  | A backup or a dump is being restored |
|  | Waiting on something outside Duploy, such as DNS |
|  | Some instances healthy, some not |
|  | Ran out of time |

## Stopped and failed

| Status | Means |
|---|---|
|  | Stopped on purpose |
|  | A cron trigger skipped because the previous run was still going |
|  | Cancelled |
|  | The job failed; its log says why |
|  | The container exited unexpectedly |
|  | Crashing repeatedly; Duploy stopped restarting it |

## Scheduled

| Status | Means |
|---|---|
|  | A cron job waiting for its next trigger |