Resource Exhausted

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My goal for this scenario is to create a daily backup of our monday.com instance.

The scenario actually works correctly as it is, but I get several errors as it attempts to run.

Essentially I get the error 429: RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED - Quota exceeded for quota metric ‘Write requests’ and limit ‘Write requests per minute per user’ of service ‘sheets.googleapis.com’ for consumer 'project_number:xxxxxxxx

The backups always seem to transfer all of the data successfully, it just takes multiple attempts.
Example of errors

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The scenario itself is very simple, but I’m wondering if there is a simple way that I can spread out the requests to avoid getting these errrors.

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You are calling the external service too rapidly without pause/delay, hence the 429 “Rate Limit” error.

You can use a sleep module to add a 10 second delay before your Google Sheets “Add a Row” module [3].

See https://www.make.com/en/help/errors/429-errors

If you want to learn more about Make, you can read up in the Help Center. I also recommend doing the tutorials in the Make Academy, and learn advanced skills like how to make custom apps to any API in the Make Partner Training Portal - both have certificates for successful completion.

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Thank you! I had actually just found the 429 erorrs page under the help right as you posted this. I was on my way here to post the link in case anyone found this in the future.

I appreciate you taking the time to help!!