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# Troubleshooting Deployments

If your Seldon Deployment does not seem to be running here are some tips to diagnose the issue.

## My model does not seem to be running

Check whether the Seldon Deployment is running:

```bash
kubectl get sdep
```

If it exists, check its status, for a Seldon deployment called `<name>`:

```bash
kubectl get sdep <name> -o jsonpath='{.status}'
```

This might look like:

```bash
>kubectl get sdep

NAME      AGE
mymodel   1m

>kubectl get sdep mymodel -o jsonpath='{.status}'
map[predictorStatus:[map[name:mymodel-mymodel-7cd068f replicas:1 replicasAvailable:1]] state:Available]
```

If you have the `jq` tool installed you can get a nicer output with:

```bash
>kubectl get sdep mymodel -o json | jq .status
{
  "predictorStatus": [
    {
      "name": "mymodel-mymodel-7cd068f",
      "replicas": 1,
      "replicasAvailable": 1
    }
  ],
  "state": "Available"
}
```

For a model with invalid json/yaml an example is shown below:

```bash
>kubectl get sdep seldon-model -o json | jq .status
{
  "description": "Cannot find field: imagename in message k8s.io.api.core.v1.Container",
  "state": "Failed"
}
```

## Check all events on the SeldonDeployment

```bash
kubectl describe sdep mysdep
```

This will show each event from the operator including create, update, delete and error events.

## My Seldon Deployment remains in "creating" state

Check if the pods are running successfully.

## I get 500s when calling my model over the API

Check the logs of your running model pods.

## My Seldon Deployment is not listed

Check the logs of the Seldon Operator. This is the pod which handles the Seldon Deployment graphs sent to Kubernetes. On a default installation, you can find the operator pod on the `seldon-system` namespace. The pod will be labelled as `control-plane=seldon-controller-manager`, so to get the logs you can run:

```bash
kubectl logs -n seldon-system -l control-plane=seldon-controller-manager
```

### Invalid memory address

On some cases, you will see an error message on the operator logs like the following:

```
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
```

This error can be caused by empty or unexpected values in the `SeldonDeployment` spec. The main cause is usually a misconfiguration of the mutating webhook. To fix it, you can try to [re-install Seldon Core](https://github.com/SeldonIO/seldon-core/blob/master/docs-gb/deployments/install.md) in your cluster.

## I have tried the above and I'm still confused

* Contact our [Slack Community](https://join.slack.com/t/seldondev/shared_invite/enQtMzA2Mzk1Mzg0NjczLTJlNjQ1NTE5Y2MzMWIwMGUzYjNmZGFjZjUxODU5Y2EyMDY0M2U3ZmRiYTBkOTRjMzZhZjA4NjJkNDkxZTA2YmU)
* Create an [issue on Seldon Core's Github repo](https://github.com/SeldonIO/seldon-core/issues). Please make sure to add any diagnostics from the above suggestions to help us diagnose your issue.