Statuses

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Updated at December 29, 2025

Group statuses
Statuses of instances in the group
Lifecycle of instances in a group

This section lists the possible statuses of instance groups and instances (VMs) in a group.

Note

The statuses of instances in groups are different from the statuses of instances in Compute Cloud.

Group statuses

Status	Description
`DEPLOYING`	The group is being created or modified. Available actions with the group: stop, delete.
`STARTING`	The group is starting. Available actions with the group: stop, delete.
`ACTIVE`	The group is running. If activated in the settings, autohealing and scaling will be on in groups with this status. Available actions with the group: modify, pause processes, stop, delete.
`PAUSED`	The group's instances are running; however, updates, autohealing, and scaling are paused. Available actions with the group: resume processes. All major alterations of the group, e.g., resizing, instance reconfiguration, etc., will only apply after the processes are resumed. Note You cannot pause an instance group that is being deleted. Also, you cannot run any operations for paused instance groups.
`STOPPING`	The group's instances and processes are coming to a halt. Available actions with the group: run, modify, delete. All major alterations of the group, e.g., resizing, instance reconfiguration, etc., will only apply after the group is started.
`STOPPED`	All the group's instances and processes are stopped. Available actions with the group: run, modify, delete. All major alterations of the group, e.g., resizing, instance reconfiguration, etc., will only apply after the group is started.
`DELETING`	The group is being deleted. The first to be deleted are the group's instances, next the network load balancer target group, if specified. Finally, the instance group itself gets deleted. Available actions with the group: modify, if you need to specify a new service account ID.

Statuses of instances in the group

Status	Description
`CREATING_INSTANCE`	The instance is being created and started. Instance Groups is waiting for the instance in Compute Cloud to get the `RUNNING` status.
`AWAITING_STARTUP_DURATION`	The instance has been created and is waiting for the user application to start up within the specified upload period. Network traffic is not being sent to the instance. For automatic scaling, instances with this status are not taken into account.
`CHECKING_HEALTH`	Instance Groups is waiting for the results of its own health checks of the instance. You can limit the time in this status (see Settings for application health checks).
`OPENING_TRAFFIC`	If an instance group is integrated with the load balancing service, Instance Groups waits until the instance passes a health check from the load balancer and is ready to accept traffic from it. You can limit the time in this status (see Health checks from load balancers). If the integration is disabled, the status is skipped.
`AWAITING_WARMUP_DURATION`	The instance is receiving traffic, but no autoscaling metrics are read from it during the specified time interval.
`RUNNING_ACTUAL`	The instance is running and receiving network traffic. User applications are running.
`RUNNING_OUTDATED`	The instance is running but will soon be updated or deleted.
`CLOSING_TRAFFIC`	The instance is being removed from the network load balancer's target group. Network traffic from the load balancer to the instance is being stopped.
`STOPPING_INSTANCE`	The instance is being stopped.
`STOPPED`	The instance has been stopped. You are not charged for instances with this status.
`STARTING_INSTANCE`	The instance is starting. Instance Groups is waiting for the instance in Compute Cloud to get the `RUNNING` status.
`UPDATING_INSTANCE`	Basic parameters or metadata of the instance are being updated.
`DELETING_INSTANCE`	The instance is being deleted.
`PREPARING_RESOURCES`	Instance is being prepared for use with new instances. For example, the disks may be remained or their volume may be changed.
`DELETED`	The instance has been deleted. All data and resources associated with this instance are saved for later use.

Lifecycle of instances in a group

The chart below shows how the instance status changes during the lifecycle:

: Instance Groups performs an action on the instance.
: The instance expects an action from Instance Groups.

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Group statuses

Statuses of instances in the group

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