Google Sheets trigger repeats endlessly

Describe the problem/error/question

Brand new to n8n, so this is probably an ID10T error. I’m running a very simple workflow that polls a Google sheet regularly, and sends an email notification if a new row is detected. If for some reason the trigger fails, it repeats the trigger endlessly. Since I have several of these workflows doing the same thing, it very quickly leads to a ratelimit error from the Google Sheets API. The only way I’ve found to reset everything is to deactivate all of the workflows, go through and delete the “error” executions one by one. I’ve tried setting an error handling workflow, and tried using an if statement to route errors to a Stop and Fail, but nothing seems to stop the retries.

What is the error message (if any)?

The service is receiving too many requests from you

Quota exceeded for quota metric ‘Read requests’ and limit ‘Read requests per minute per user’ of service ‘sheets.googleapis.com’ for consumer…

Please share your workflow

Share the output returned by the last node

None - fails on trigger

Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: 1.84.3
  • Database (default: SQLite): unchanged
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): unchanged
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): npm
  • Operating system: Proxmox LXC

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