Hey guys, I’ve been hit with the 429 error where the error message is “slow down”. I checked everything and I seem to be well within the rate limits for this. This seems to be happening primarily for the text-embedding-ada API. Anyone knows what this could be about?

Same issue. I am not even making many requests. What can be done?

I think that it’s something to do with the outage that happened yesterday. Can’t be sure though. Hoping to get a more clear answer, since I’m unsure if I should action something or not.

Yeah, it might be because of the current outage. OpenAI claims that “We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are continuing work to mitigate this.” Check back at status.openai.com

Could it be the outages? I have the same issue when testing locally while the deployed one works well most time. Wondering when it will be retrieved…

open ai notified that all issues have been resolved but i am still getting error messages ‘slow down’ using the api. Am I missing anything?

We’re also still getting the ‘slow down’ error after 1pm.

We are getting immediate 429s for all our requests, to all models, even including ada for embeddings. We have plenty of quota, implement retries, exponential backoff, etc. Everything was working well before the outage. Whatever was put in place to remedy the outage is blocking every request and our …

Hey everyone! First off, sorry for the trouble here. This was due to mitigations we put in place to stabilize the platform after we saw an abnormal increase in traffic indicative of a DDoS. We just rolled out some adjustments that should fix this for you! Let me know if you’re still running into an…

Thanks! Will you publish a post mortem on the attack and this issue?

Getting hit with 429: "Slow Down" Error

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jeffvigilante November 9, 2023, 6:56am 3

same issue too, I face the same issue even I create a new account, it seem OpenAI block my IP or something.

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