I started receiving these errors yesterday out of nowhere, and noticed that my quotas for have been set to 0 by a producer override. My usage is extremely low, and this is a paid account. I’m not sure what could be leading to this.
Here is the error:
google.api_core.exceptions.ResourceExhausted: 429 Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Generate Content API requests per minute' and limit 'GenerateContent request limit per minute for a region' of service 'generativelanguage.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:************'. [reason: "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED"
domain: "googleapis.com"
metadata {
key: "service"
value: "generativelanguage.googleapis.com"
}
metadata {
key: "quota_unit"
value: "1/min/{project}/{region}"
}
metadata {
key: "quota_metric"
value: "generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_requests"
}
metadata {
key: "quota_location"
value: "us-central1"
}
metadata {
key: "quota_limit"
value: "GenerateContentRequestsPerMinutePerProjectPerRegion"
}
metadata {
key: "quota_limit_value"
value: "0"
}
metadata {
key: "consumer"
value: "projects/****************"
}
, links {
description: "Request a higher quota limit."
url: "https://cloud.google.com/docs/quotas/help/request_increase"
}
]
Here is the producer override:
{
insertId: "***********"
logName: "projects/*************/logs/cloudaudit.googleapis.com%2Factivity"
operation: {
first: true
id: "operations/*************"
producer: "serviceconsumermanagement.googleapis.com"
}
protoPayload: {
@type: "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.audit.AuditLog"
authenticationInfo: {
principalEmail: "**********@google.com"
}
authorizationInfo: [
0: {5}
]
methodName: "google.api.serviceconsumermanagement.v1beta1.ServiceConsumerManager.CreateProducerOverride"
requestMetadata: {
callerIp: "gce-internal-ip"
destinationAttributes: {0}
requestAttributes: {0}
}
resourceName: "services/generativelanguage.googleapis.com/projects/*************/consumerQuotaMetrics/generativelanguage.googleapis.com%2Fgenerate_content_requests/limits/%2Fmin%2Fproject%2Fregion"
resourceOriginalState: {
@type: "type.googleapis.com/google.api.serviceconsumermanagement.v1beta1.QuotaOverride"
}
}
receiveTimestamp: "2025-05-12T20:20:44.272816787Z"
resource: {
labels: {3}
type: "audited_resource"
}
severity: "NOTICE"
timestamp: "2025-05-12T20:20:43.087053Z"
}