Can't publish workflow - Too Many Requests error

I can’t publish my workflow. Getting error: “Too Many Requests: retry after 1” and “The service is receiving too many requests from you”. This has been happening for over an hour.
I’m on the free cloud plan. Please help!

Hi @seregakrov Welcome!
Umm this only happens when you use external service triggers like telegram/slack, for now as you have been trying for an hour, consider giving it a lil break, Also for example if that trigger is telegram consider only having 1 published flow with that as one token or one access credentials having two services watching out can cause this, just make sure you are only using 1 active flow with that, also give your instance a restart from the admin dashboard.

welcome to the n8n community @seregakrov
it looks like the publish request may be getting rate-limited, but I’d want to confirm a few details before jumping to conclusions:

  • Which browser are you using, and does it happen in an incognito/private window too?
  • json workflow

@seregakrov can you share the workflow json? the “retry after 1” error on cloud free tier can also come from n8n’s own internal API rate limit when saving large workflows, not just external triggers. try trimming any unused nodes and clearing execution history from settings > executions before publishing again, that reduces the payload size on the save request