ThrottlingAzureKnown error
TooManyRequests
You're being throttled
Throttling
What the error looks like
- Error code
- WHO — identity
- WHAT — action
- WHERE — scope
- Policy
- Correlation / trace
Status: 429HTTP (Too Many Requests)
Retry-After: 17
{
"error": {
"code": "SubscriptionRequestsThrottledCODE",
"message": "Number of 'read' requests for subscription '00000000-1111-4222-8333-444444444444WHO' actor 'a1b2c3d4-0000-4000-8000-000000000001WHO' exceeded. Please try again after '17' seconds after the last request."
}
}What you told me
“Azure keeps failing my script.”
you · just now
Let's read it.
RTFE · seen
What it actually says
The service is throttling requests. It even told you how long to wait.
Azure outage? No. Rate limiting is intentional behaviour, not an outage.
The fix
- 01Honour the Retry-After header.
- 02Use exponential backoff with jitter.
- 03Reduce request volume: batch, cache, and avoid polling loops.
Read it faster next time
Retry-After is a number. Wait that long.