diff --git a/.github/workflows/close-stalled.yml b/.github/workflows/close-stalled.yml
index 335a1eea471b70..1834d3ac2e6815 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/close-stalled.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/close-stalled.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ jobs:
         close-pr-message: Closing this because it has stalled. Feel free to reopen if this PR is still relevant, or to ping the collaborator who labelled it stalled if you have any questions.
         # used to filter issues to check whether or not should be closed, avoids hitting maximum operations allowed if needing to paginate through all open issues
         only-labels: stalled
+        # max requests it will send per run to the GitHub API before it deliberately exits to avoid hitting API rate limits
+        operations-per-run: 500
         # deactivates automatic removal of stalled label if issue gets any activity
         remove-stale-when-updated: false
         # deactivates automatic stale labelling as we prefer to do that manually