Error 429: Query aborted. Please reduce the query rate.

[skykwame]

We are getting a few ...

ts=2024-01-29T10:29:44.926Z caller=monitoring_collector.go:212 level=error msg="Error while getting Google Stackdriver Monitoring metrics" err="googleapi: Error 429: Query aborted. Please reduce the query rate., rateLimitExceeded

Could you introduce an argument that allows a bit of sleep between API Calls to ease the pressure on the backend?

Probably somewhere here
https://github.com/prometheus-community/stackdriver_exporter/blob/master/collectors/monitoring_collector.go#L323

Google is looking into it as we don't seem to be hitting our quotas
However after making changes to your source, adding a slight delay between api calls seem to help