Where to find actual internal server error?

[RobinSEC]

In ollama client it tells you if you are trying to load to many images or the model is to large for the available member etc however I cant seem to find those reasons while using OllamaSharp. Could be quite useful to know why ollama is skipping me. Is it available in ollamasharp and am i not looking in the right place?

[awaescher]

I find this very unspecific. What does this even mean?

Could be quite useful to know why ollama is skipping me.

Please try to be more specific so I might be able to infer what you mean.

[RobinSEC]

For example: when the model is to big for memory, ollama client tells you but via ollamasharp cant seem to find the exception, it returns internal server error only (as it seems)

[awaescher]

Check the exception that you get. If it's not in there, I guess the Ollama API is not giving these out,
The fact that the Ollama client has these warnings does not necessarily mean that the API will do it as well.

[Ganesh-403]

@RobinSEC From what I can tell, this is more of an Ollama API limitation than an OllamaSharp one.

The Ollama API returns errors as JSON with an error field, for example:

{
  "error": "failed to load model: out of memory"
}

or

{
  "error": "the model failed to generate a response"
}

So if OllamaSharp only exposes Internal Server Error, I'd first check the exception object itself (e.g. Message, InnerException, or any response body exposed by the library) to see whether that JSON payload is being surfaced. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

If the response body is not available, then I suspect the library is currently discarding the API's error payload and only propagating the HTTP status. In that case, it would be a worthwhile enhancement for OllamaSharp to include the server's error message in the thrown exception, since Ollama often provides much more actionable information (e.g. "failed to load model: out of memory"). :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

As a workaround while debugging, you could also:

• Enable Ollama debug logging:

  OLLAMA_DEBUG=1 ollama serve

• Inspect the Ollama server logs directly, as they'll often contain the full reason for failures such as OOM, model loading issues, or template errors. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

One question: which exception type are you actually receiving from OllamaSharp? If you can share the exception type and its full contents (including any InnerException), it would help determine whether the error message is being returned by the API but lost in the client, or whether the API itself is only returning a generic 500.

If this solves your problem, feel free to mark it as the accepted answer so others can find it easily.