Short FAQ for gallery readers. Full tables and recovery steps: project troubleshooting (especially the SIE section) and sie-setup.md.
SIE_ENABLED is false or unset (default). Set SIE_ENABLED=true, set
SIE_ENDPOINT, reload the server.
- Wrong
SIE_ENDPOINT(typo, http vs https, missing port) - Gateway auth: set
SIE_API_KEYand useAuthorization: Bearer …on/healthz - Local Docker: SIE not running, still warming up, or server-in-Docker needs
host.docker.internal:8720 - Encode still returning 503 during model load — wait until encode returns 200
SIE guard runs preflight. Fix health/SIE_ENABLED first, then re-run. Confirm
indexes for your storage backend (vector_index_1024 + text index on Mongo for
typical SIE configs — see project MongoDB setup).
Expected. Start a remote gateway or follow self-hosted Docker in sie-setup.md.
Use a SIE config such as
configs/mongodb/example-sie.yaml,
not a Voyage-only or local-only example.
- sie-setup.md — known issues, warm-up, Aim UI
- troubleshooting.md — indexes, Docker, storage
- Open an issue on neomatrix369/rag-params-finder