You might receive quota errors for a number of reasons, such as exceeding quota values or not setting the quota on a project correctly. If you want to be alerted when errors happen, you can create custom alerts for specific quota errors, as described in Set up quota alerts.
Exceeding rate quotas
Rate quotas reset after a predefined time interval that is specific to each service. For more information, see the quotas documentation for the specific service.
Exceeding quota values
If your project exceeds its maximum quota value while using a service, Google Cloud returns an error based on how you accessed the service:
- If you exceed a quota value with an API request, Google Cloud returns an HTTP
413 REQUEST ENTITY TOO LARGE
status code. Note that when using the BigQuery legacy streaming API in a production environment, you may receive a413 REQUEST ENTITY TOO LARGE
status code if your HTTP requests are larger than 10 MB. You may also receive this error if you exceed 300 MB per second. For more information see Streaming inserts. - If you exceeded a quota value with an HTTP/REST request, Google Cloud returns an
HTTP
429 TOO MANY REQUESTS
status code. - If you exceed a quota for Compute Engine, Google Cloud typically returns an
HTTP
403 QUOTA_EXCEEDED
status code, whether it was from API, HTTP/REST, or gRPC. If the quota is a rate quota, then403 RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED
is returned. - If you exceeded a quota value using gRPC, Google Cloud returns a
ResourceExhausted
error. How this error appears to you depends on the service. - If you exceeded a quota value using a Google Cloud CLI command, the
gcloud CLI outputs a quota-exceeded error message and returns
with the exit code
1
. - If you received a
QUOTA_EXCEEDED
message during a service rollout, see the following section.
Exceeding quota values during a service rollout
Google Cloud sometimes changes the default quota values for resources and APIs. These changes take place gradually, which means that during the rollout of a new default quota, the quota value that appears in the Google Cloud console might not reflect the new quota value that is available to you.
If a quota rollout is in progress, you may receive an error message that states
The future limit is the new default quota that will be available after a
service rollout completes.
If you see this error message, the cited quota value
and future value are correct, even if what appears in the Google Cloud console
is different.
For additional information, view the audit logs and look for a
QUOTA_EXCEEDED
message."status": { ... "message": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED", "details": [ { ... "value": { "quotaExceeded": { ... "futureLimit": FUTUREVALUE } } } ] },
To view charts that show current and peak usage, go to the Quotas & System Limits page and then click Monitoring. You might need to go to the end of the table.
If you need more quota, you can request a quota adjustment.
API error messages
If your quota project (also called a billing project) isn't set correctly, API requests might return error messages that are similar to the following:
User credentials not supported by this API
API not enabled in the project
No quota project set
These and other errors can often be fixed by setting the quota project. For more information, see Quota project overview.
Google Cloud CLI errors
This section describes common issues encountered when getting started with the Google Cloud CLI (gcloud CLI).
Install and initialize
To use the gcloud CLI for Cloud Quotas, be sure to install and initialize components:
Install the gcloud CLI.
If you're using Cloud Shell, you can skip this step because gcloud CLI comes pre-installed.
Initialize the gcloud CLI.
Install the alpha component by running the following command:
gcloud components install alpha
Set your quota project
If you haven't set your quota project, gcloud CLI commands might return an error like the following:
PERMISSION_DENIED: Your application is authenticating by using local Application Default Credentials.
The cloudquotas.googleapis.com API requires a quota project, which is not set by default.
To resolve this issue, add the --billing-project
flag on your
gcloud CLI command to explicitly set the quota project, or rerun
gcloud config set billing/quota_project CURRENT_PROJECT
to set the quota project
as the current project.
For more information, see the following:
- Set the quota project programmatically.
- Set the billing project through the gcloud CLI.
Update gcloud CLI components
If you receive an error that the quotas command contains an Invalid choice
,
you might have an older version of the gcloud CLI installed.
Update the gcloud CLI components with the following command:
gcloud components update
For more details about gcloud alpha quotas
commands and flags, see the
gcloud alpha quotas
section of the Google Cloud CLI reference.