Grid Manager returns "Service unavailable”(HTTP 503) after upgrading StorageGRID primary admin node
Applies to
- NetApp StorageGRID
- Grid Manager
Issue
- Grid Manager returns
Service unavailableafter completing the upgrade of primary admin node
- The upgrade workflow does not proceed to upgrade other nodes, the GUI returned to the Select files step
- NODES tab and other management functions were inaccessible due to
Service unavailable

- The issue resolved itself without manual intervention (after 20 minutes for example)
/var/local/log/prometheus.logindicates it takes a long time to get ready for web requests with"Server is ready to receive web requests."since"Starting Prometheus Server"
Oct 2 07:59:03 <PRIMARY_ADMIN_NODE> PROM[16808]: ts=2025-10-02T07:59:03.773Z caller=main.go:564 level=info msg="Starting Prometheus Server" mode=server version="(version=2.43.0, branch=HEAD, revision=edfc3bcd025dd6fe296c167a14a216cab1e552ee)"Oct 2 08:14:40 <PRIMARY_ADMIN_NODE> PROM[16808]: ts=2025-10-02T08:14:40.240Z caller=main.go:990 level=info msg="Server is ready to receive web requests."
