OverQuotaError: The API call search.IndexDocument() required more quota than is available.

[Simo Ahava]

I'm getting the

OverQuotaError: The API call search.IndexDocument() required more quota than is available.

error with every single index operation I try to make even though I shouldn't have breached any quotas. This started quite suddenly a couple of weeks ago.

I try to index ~500 documents, and I use the Task Queue to index each one individually with a 5/s refresh rate. But the very first call already fails with the quota error.

Not one of the quota reports in Cloud console are anywhere near reaching the limit. The highest possible quota utilization rate is 1% for Frontend instance hours, all the others are rounding down to 0%.

Could somebody help me out? The project ID is search-www-simoahava-com.

Thank you,

Simo Ahava

[Monica (Google Cloud Platform)]

You are using the maximum amount of stored data as specified by the Search API’s Free quotas [1] limit (0.25 GB of Total Storage including Documents and Indexes).

You can add more storage to your Search API Total Storage on a monthly basis by creating a Billing account [2] and enabling it to your project [3]. You can refer to the costs of Search pricing table [4] to estimate the charges for adding storage data to your Search API. 

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/quotas#search 
[2] https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6288653?hl=en 

[3] https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/modify-project#enable_billing_for_an_existing_project 
[4] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing#search_pricing

[Simo Ahava]

Thank you Monica,

is there away to monitor this quota usage? I tried looking through the various quota pages in the console, but I couldn't find this particular quota listed anywhere.

Best regards,

Simo

[Jorge A (Google Cloud Support)]

Here's how to look at your indexes and the documents within them [1]. You can do so by clicking on the link [2]. Clicking an index name displays the documents that index contains, this gives you an idea of how close you are at reaching the total Storage quota [3], which includes documents and indexes, for Search API.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/search/#Python_Viewing_indexes_in_the_Dev_Console
[2] https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/search?_ga=2.120139592.-1161685274.1525887962
[3] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/quotas#search