# 429 API Rate Limit Error **URL:** \ **Category:** Data Hub\ **Created:** [March 16, 2022, 8:27am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/429-api-rate-limit-error/53250 "2022-03-16T08:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![tfoston01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/91b2a8/32.png) [@tfoston01](https://community.hubspot.com/u/tfoston01)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/429-api-rate-limit-error/53250/5 "2022-04-20T04:36:03Z")
The documentation is wrong. From experience, the SDK will retry a failed API call 6 times max. After that, it stops retrying and you’re on your own to essentially restart things yourself. At A8Labs, we actually don’t use the SDK and instead make the API calls ourselves using the axios library. We evaluate the response headers and look for the rate-limiting headers specifically and take pauses/sleep if we can anticipate a 429 coming. For job queueing and decoupling, please check out the article below > **[AWS SQS : The Ultimate Decoupling Solution](https://towardsaws.com/aws-sqs-the-ultimate-decoupling-solution-de8a8c8862e7)** > > AWS SQS: The Ultimate Decoupling Solution Overview From the time since cloud computing came into existence, it has been revolutionizing and coming up with new services and features for the ease and … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.hubspot.com/t/429-api-rate-limit-error/53250)._