# Why You're Getting 429s in Production Using Auth0 and How to Stop Them

DevFeed: [Why You're Getting 429s in Production Using Auth0 and How to Stop Them](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-you-re-getting-429s-in-production-using-auth0-and-how-to-stop-them-15655.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://auth0.com/blog/why-getting-429s-and-how-to-stop-them/>)

Author: Carla Urrea Stabile

Published: 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Auth0 Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/auth0-blog.md>)

Topics: [Auth0](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/auth0.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [JSON Web Tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jwt.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [auth0](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/auth0.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [jwt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jwt.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [token](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/token.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains why Auth0 API requests return 429 rate-limit errors in production. It identifies per-request Management API calls and repeatedly fetching machine-to-machine tokens as common causes, and recommends putting suitable authorization data in JWT claims, caching reusable tokens, logging rate-limit headers, and using short-lived tokens or live checks when changes must take effect immediately.

## Source excerpt

Getting Auth0 429 status code errors in production? They almost always trace back to APIs rate limit. Here are the two causes and how to fix them.