# Verify the Status of an In-Memory DB Instance

The In-Memory DB instance will be deployed in about five minutes after the creation of your first instance. For more information about In-Memory DB instance creation, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Create an In-Memory DB Instance</mark>](/cloud/databases/in-memory-db/api-howtos/create-in-memory-db-instance.md).

We recommend you manually verify if the request has successfully created an instance because <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> does not send notifications on instance creation. However, you can poll the API to see when the `state` switches to `AVAILABLE`. You can use the following command:

```bash
while [[ $(curl -sXGET "https://in-memory-db.de-txl.ionos.com/replicasets/${UUID}" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" | jq -r .metadata.state) != "AVAILABLE" ]]; do
  sleep 5
  clear
  echo -e "Cluster status:\n"
  kg replicasets "${UUID}" -ojsonpath='{.status.conditions}' | yq -P
  echo -e "\ncluster is not available yet, waiting 5 seconds..."
done
```

## Initialize the In-Memory DB Instance

Soon after the In-Memory DB instance is created, you can establish a connection via the In-Memory DB CLI to connect it to the database. For more information, refer to the [<mark style="color:blue;">In-Memory DB documentation</mark>](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/references/cli-utilities/redis-cli/).


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