Google Sheets Trigger Keeps Retrying Without New Row & Throws Internal Error

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Describe the problem/error/question

I’m facing an issue with the Google Sheets Trigger node in my workflow. It keeps getting retriggered repeatedly, even though no new row is being added to the connected Google Sheet. This leads to repeated executions and an error being thrown.

What is the error message (if any)?

The service was not able to process your request
Internal error encountered.

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Information on your n8n setup

  • **n8n version: Version 1.85.4
  • **Database : PostgreSQL
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): default
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker
  • Operating system: Ubuntu 24.04
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The google sheets trigger polls, so it does that from time to time. If you look on your google developer API dashboard, you’ll see that it polls every minute in your case.

Google’s API endpoints either fail or rate limit you from time to time, so this is expected behavior.

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Yes, seems ure calling it too much, and less frequent should help, otherwise as @aiandwifi said sure probably being rate limited hense the error u get.