docs(calls): clarify vapifault-worker-not-available vs status.vapi.ai and billing - #1167
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Why this changeEvaluated the last 7 days (Aug 17–24, 2026) of customer feedback across support tickets, Ask AI chat, Discord, and NPS survey sources, benchmarked against the prior 7 days and a trailing 4-week average. Most topics were down week-over-week (a broad pattern this week), but Uptime & Availability was the one topic that rose above trend: 83 conversations this week vs. 70 the prior week and a ~74/week 4-week average — a sustained, not one-off, signal. Drilling into that topic's tickets from this week, at least 5 distinct customers independently reported
Content check: Classification: Incomplete content — the error code is documented, but the specific scenario customers are hitting (no status-page incident + billing confusion) wasn't covered. This PR only touches the |
What changed
In
fern/calls/troubleshoot-call-errors.mdx, under Phone never rang → Infrastructure errors:Fixguidance forcall.in-progress.error-vapifault-worker-not-availableto note that this is a brief, transient capacity blip that can affect a region or a subset of orgs without crossing the threshold to be posted as a status.vapi.ai incident.<Note>directly after the Infrastructure errors accordion covering: what to do ifvapifault-prefixed errors recur with no matching status page incident (retry, then contact support withcall_ids and timestamps if it persists), and a billing clarification (these errors are not billed by default; contact support with thecall_idfor a credit if you were charged).No other content, wording, or structure in the file was changed.