diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index e34f8615733..d11b3578ef2 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## 2023.3.1
 ### Breaking Change
-- Running a tunnel without ingress rules defined in configuration file nor from the CLI flags will no longer provide a default ingress rule to localhost:8080 and instead will return HTTP response code 502 for all incoming HTTP requests.
+- Running a tunnel without ingress rules defined in configuration file nor from the CLI flags will no longer provide a default ingress rule to localhost:8080 and instead will return HTTP response code 503 for all incoming HTTP requests.
 
 ## 2023.2.2
 ### Notices
diff --git a/component-tests/test_tunnel.py b/component-tests/test_tunnel.py
index 9a193aec83e..d6978825b58 100644
--- a/component-tests/test_tunnel.py
+++ b/component-tests/test_tunnel.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def test_tunnel_url(self, tmp_path, component_tests_config):
 
     def test_tunnel_no_ingress(self, tmp_path, component_tests_config):
         '''
-        Running a tunnel with no ingress rules provided from either config.yaml or CLI will still work but return 502
+        Running a tunnel with no ingress rules provided from either config.yaml or CLI will still work but return 503
         for all incoming requests.
         '''
         config = component_tests_config(cfd_mode=CfdModes.NAMED, run_proxy_dns=False, provide_ingress=False)
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ def test_tunnel_no_ingress(self, tmp_path, component_tests_config):
         with start_cloudflared(tmp_path, config, cfd_args=["run"], new_process=True):
             wait_tunnel_ready(require_min_connections=4)
             resp = send_request(config.get_url()+"/")
-            assert resp.status_code == 502, "Expected cloudflared to return 502 for all requests with no ingress defined"
+            assert resp.status_code == 503, "Expected cloudflared to return 503 for all requests with no ingress defined"
             resp = send_request(config.get_url()+"/test")
-            assert resp.status_code == 502, "Expected cloudflared to return 502 for all requests with no ingress defined"
+            assert resp.status_code == 503, "Expected cloudflared to return 503 for all requests with no ingress defined"
 
 
 @retry(stop_max_attempt_number=MAX_RETRIES, wait_fixed=BACKOFF_SECS * 1000)
diff --git a/ingress/ingress.go b/ingress/ingress.go
index 2b20fc48680..926d1bf13ee 100644
--- a/ingress/ingress.go
+++ b/ingress/ingress.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import (
 
 var (
 	ErrNoIngressRules             = errors.New("The config file doesn't contain any ingress rules")
-	ErrNoIngressRulesCLI          = errors.New("No ingress rules were defined in provided config (if any) nor from the cli, cloudflared will return 502 for all incoming HTTP requests")
+	ErrNoIngressRulesCLI          = errors.New("No ingress rules were defined in provided config (if any) nor from the cli, cloudflared will return 503 for all incoming HTTP requests")
 	errLastRuleNotCatchAll        = errors.New("The last ingress rule must match all URLs (i.e. it should not have a hostname or path filter)")
 	errBadWildcard                = errors.New("Hostname patterns can have at most one wildcard character (\"*\") and it can only be used for subdomains, e.g. \"*.example.com\"")
 	errHostnameContainsPort       = errors.New("Hostname cannot contain a port")
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func parseCLIIngress(c *cli.Context, allowURLFromArgs bool) (Ingress, error) {
 	return ing, err
 }
 
-// newDefaultOrigin always returns a 502 response code to help indicate that there are no ingress
+// newDefaultOrigin always returns a 503 response code to help indicate that there are no ingress
 // rules setup, but the tunnel is reachable.
 func newDefaultOrigin(c *cli.Context, log *zerolog.Logger) Ingress {
 	noRulesService := newDefaultStatusCode(log)
diff --git a/ingress/origin_service.go b/ingress/origin_service.go
index 99953c4f670..361470f216f 100644
--- a/ingress/origin_service.go
+++ b/ingress/origin_service.go
@@ -257,9 +257,9 @@ func newStatusCode(status int) statusCode {
 	return statusCode{code: status}
 }
 
-// default status code (502) that is returned for requests to cloudflared that don't have any ingress rules setup
+// default status code (503) that is returned for requests to cloudflared that don't have any ingress rules setup
 func newDefaultStatusCode(log *zerolog.Logger) statusCode {
-	return statusCode{code: 502, defaultResp: true, log: log}
+	return statusCode{code: 503, defaultResp: true, log: log}
 }
 
 func (o *statusCode) String() string {