Actions fails if rate Limit is not enabled

[ggabijaa]

Description:
When running action on schedule errors due to rateLimit. The actions is marked as successful but logs were showing errors:

Is this expected behavior? Should action error out when rateLimit, not enabled?

Action version: V9

Platform: Rocky Linux

Runner type: Self-hosted

Workfkow config:

name: Mark Stale Pull Requests

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 1 * * *'

permissions:
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write


jobs:
  stale:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, rocky]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@v9
        with:
          days-before-stale: 3
          stale-pr-label: 'stale'
          labels-to-remove-when-unstale: 'stale'
          days-before-close: -1

[HarithaVattikuti]

Hello @ggabijaa
Thank you for creating this issue. We will investigate it and get back to you as soon as we have some feedback.

[martin-majlis-s1]

When I check the documentation - https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/configuring-settings/configuring-user-applications-for-your-enterprise/configuring-rate-limits#about-rate-limits-for-github-actions - I can see, that it says:

By default, the rate limit for GitHub Actions is disabled. Because GitHub Enterprise Server can handle temporary spikes in usage without performance degradation, this rate limit is intended to protect against sustained high load. We recommend leaving the rate limit disabled unless you are experiencing performance problems. In some cases, GitHub Support may recommend that you enable a rate limit for GitHub Actions.

Not having a rate limit is expected state and it should not be logged as an error - https://github.com/actions/stale/blob/main/src/classes/issues-processor.ts#L648

What do you think?

[nunosousa-dev]

Is this still being analyzed? At least a flag to not check for rate limites could be considered, or just remove this error print for GH Enterprise instances. Thank you.

[suyashgaonkar]

Hi @ggabijaa , We tried to investigate the issue with the provided details on a self hosted runner and we see that the workflow seems to work fine without any rate limit issue. It will really helpful if you could share a link to a public repository to help us with further investigation on the issue.

[suyashgaonkar]

Hi @ggabijaa , We are awaiting for your response, you can let us know if you have any queriers or the issue still exists.

[ggabijaa]

hello, yes workflow does work and is marked as successful, however error is printed. I cant send you the link of the repository, as its enterprise. Action works as expected in public Github.

Attaching logs for the workflow run in enterprise:

2024-12-30T12:58:22.0421334Z Requested labels: self-hosted
2024-12-30T12:58:22.0421465Z Job defined at: test-org/test-repo/.github/workflows/mark_stale.yaml@refs/heads/main
2024-12-30T12:58:22.0421544Z Waiting for a runner to pick up this job...
2024-12-30T12:58:22.9399996Z Job is about to start running on the runner: runner-runner1 (enterprise)
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5542857Z Current runner version: '2.321.0'
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5560032Z Runner name: 'runner-runner1'
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5563264Z Runner group name: 'Runners'
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5566482Z Machine name: 'runnervm'
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5578943Z ##[group]GITHUB_TOKEN Permissions
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5584246Z Issues: write
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5586215Z Metadata: read
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5588166Z PullRequests: write
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5590541Z ##[endgroup]
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5594874Z Secret source: Actions
2024-12-30T12:58:40.5597218Z Prepare workflow directory
2024-12-30T12:58:40.6409272Z Prepare all required actions
2024-12-30T12:58:40.6481760Z Getting action download info
2024-12-30T12:58:40.8520820Z Download action repository 'actions/stale@v9' (SHA:28ca1036281a5e5922ead5184a1bbf96e5fc984e)
2024-12-30T12:58:41.9558465Z Complete job name: stale
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1721638Z ##[group]Run actions/stale@v9
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1725520Z with:
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1728150Z   days-before-stale: 0
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1731423Z   stale-pr-label: stale
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1734642Z   labels-to-remove-when-unstale: stale
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1738392Z   days-before-close: -1
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1742334Z   repo-token: ***
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1744689Z   stale-issue-label: Stale
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1748067Z   close-issue-reason: not_planned
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1751947Z   exempt-all-milestones: false
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1755514Z   operations-per-run: 30
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1758969Z   remove-stale-when-updated: true
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1762654Z   debug-only: false
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1765665Z   ascending: false
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1768701Z   delete-branch: false
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2024-12-30T12:58:42.1775598Z   exempt-draft-pr: false
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1779090Z   enable-statistics: true
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2024-12-30T12:58:42.1785815Z   include-only-assigned: false
2024-12-30T12:58:42.1789991Z env:
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