Troubleshooting: ChatGPT rate limits breaking Zapier zaps
Our daily summary zaps intermittently fail during peak hours; need diagnostic steps and backoff/retry strategies to keep summaries flowing. Looking for concrete Zapier + API handling patterns.
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Diagnose: inspect Zapier Task History for 429/503, capture ChatGPT API error body and Retry-After header, and log timestamps/concurrency. Implement exponential backoff with full jitter (base 1s, factor 2, cap 60s), honor Retry-After, and open a circuit breaker after N failures. Reduce calls by batching inputs, cache recent summaries, and move heavy work to a queued worker (Zapier Delay/Storage or external queue). Alert on rising queue depth or error rate.
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