Optimism Error Codes

Breakdown of error codes on Optimism and how to handle them

429 Errors

Error CodeError MessageSolution
429Your app has exceeded its compute units per second capacity. If you have retries enabled, you can safely ignore this message. If not, check out <https://docs.alchemy.com/reference/throughput>We recommend implementing retries if you have not already. If you still experience issues you can increase your throughput limit by upgrading your account.
429Your app has exceeded its concurrent requests capacity. If you have retries enabled, you can safely ignore this message. If not, check out <https://docs.alchemy.com/reference/throughput>. Reach out to us if you'd like to increase your limits: <https://dashboard.alchemyapi.io/support>We recommend implementing retries if you have not already. If you still experience issues you can increase your throughput limit by upgrading your account.
429Optimism sequencer sender global transaction limit exceeded. This limit is set at the chain level. To ensure your request goes through, we recommend implementing retries <https://docs.alchemy.com/docs/how-to-implement-retries>This limit is set by Optimism at the sequencer level, see Optimism API FAQ. We recommend implementing retries if you have not already. If you still experience issues you can increase your throughput limit by upgrading your account.
429Optimism sequencer global transaction limit exceeded This limit is set at the chain level. To ensure your request goes through, we recommend implementing retries <https://docs.alchemy.com/docs/how-to-implement-retries>This limit is set by Optimism at the sequencer level, see Optimism API FAQ. We recommend implementing retries if you have not already. If you still experience issues you can increase your throughput limit by upgrading your account.
429eth_sendRawTransaction is a method with custom rate limits that you have exceeded. If you have retries enabled, you can safely ignore this message. If not, check out <https://docs.alchemy.com/reference/throughput>We recommend implementing retries if you have not already. If you still experience issues you can increase your throughput limit by upgrading your account.
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