Make and google API usage

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:bullseye: What is your goal?

Hi all, I’m trying to understand how Make is handling google api quotas. I have posted the warning we keep getting below, which I have seen some other posts on including this one - Google - 429: RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED.

Is it true that Make is using a shared google cloud project for all api calls? If so I’m not surprised that we are running into this on some jobs, especially those running in the morning on a Monday.

Does Make have plans to increase limits or do any kind of region separation? As the userbase continues to increase this issue is going to become more prevalent, and having our scenarios impacted by what other orgs are doing that are not connected to us in any way doesn’t make much sense to me when we are paying for a Teams level license.

But maybe I’m misunderstanding something here so thats why I’m trying to do some research before I create a google cloud project to get around this. Thanks!

:thinking: What is the problem & what have you tried?

Quota limits on google modules

:clipboard: Error messages or input/output bundles

[429] Quota exceeded for quota metric ‘Read requests’ and limit ‘Read requests per minute’ of service ‘sheets.googleapis.com’ for consumer ‘project_number:408604349651’.

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Hi Aaron!
I think it’s a good question, especially if you’re running production scenarios.

From what I’ve seen, the 429 errors can occur because of Google API quota limits, and using your own Google Cloud project is often mentioned as a way to avoid relying on shared quotas. I’d be interested to hear from the Make team whether there are plans for regional separation or increased limits, since this could affect more users as adoption grows.

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Hello,

Are you using a Google Workspace connection or connecting to a free Google account?

If you are using a free Google account, then yes, that is the limitation.

You can use the custom app auth method described in detail by Samliew in the thread you posted: Google - 429: RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED - #8 by samliew

But quite quickly you will run into another limitation: constant re-authentication.
Both problems come from Google’s policy. They want to “force” high-usage clients to use paid accounts.

If you are using a Google Workspace connection, this limitation should not apply.

And if you are a free Google user and you are not happy with these limitations, I would suggest creating one Google Workspace account and sharing files with the other free accounts you are using.

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Hi, we are using google workspace accounts for all our Make scenarios. We have an Organization level license with google so we don’t need to use free accounts. Because of that I can throw up a cloud project if I need to but I guess I’m thinking about scenario and sheet/doc ownership as well.

We have a decent number of people on the platform now and I’m trying to avoid having to put all of our sheets or docs under one master account so they can be written to in Make without quota issues. Its not the end of the world as we were doing that at first, but the way it is now we’ve given different teams ownership of their own scenarios so they are managing their own sheets,docs,connections, etc.