This morning we got a couple of errors from Google Apps script saying:
Exception: Bandwidth quota exceeded...
Try reducing the rate of data transfer.
Our Google Apps Script (GAS) programs mainly look at Gmail, do some processing, access Google Maps some, and transfer data back and forth between GAS/GCP and an app hosted on another platform.
However, accessing Gmail doesn't seem to be what this is talking about. "Bandwidth quota" would seem to indicate too much data is being transferred into and out of the Google servers via Google Apps Script. We do transfer a fair amount of data back and forth to an app hosted on another platform on the Internet, such as Amazon Web Services.
However, we don't see that there is a "Bandwidth quota" on the Google Services Quotas page. AND around the time we got this error this morning, we weren't accessing Gmail nor transferring data back and forth outside of GCP any more than usual. Probably less.
Does anyone know what this quota is, where we can find it, and how we can possibly bump it up, even if we need to pay for it?
I looked at our Google Cloud Platform (CCP) Console Quotas (https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/quotas) and we are well below any usage limit, and see none that are about a "Bandwidth Quota".
Thank you!
UPDATE 29 March 2022 - After more than a month of having zero of these messages, this evening we are seeing at least 10 of them. Some facts:
- The "bandwidth quota exceeded" errors are only happening when calling the APIs for one particular external app hosted on AWS-like servers. They do not occur when calling drive, maps, etc. or any other APIs.
- Today has been a lower-volume day & evening for our app than many are. So, this makes no sense why we would get these errors this evening and not other days.