Salesforce API Limits

Salesforce API Limits

Each Salesforce account has its own API limits which reset every 24 hours.
When doing an export of documents from Salesforce, we recommend that you have at least 500,000 API requests allocated to your organization.

Determine Your Api Limits

1.  Log into Salesforce.
2.  Go to Gear > Setup

3.  Do a search for "System Overview" and click the "System Overview" tab:

You are now able to see how many you have used and what your maximum is:


Increase your API Limits

To increase your API limits, you will need to contact Salesforce support and request a temporary increase.
To do that:
1.  Go to https://help.salesforce.com/s/support and select "Login" under Trailblazer:

2.  Then click "Continue with Salesforce" and login with your Salesforce username and password.

3.  Under "Contact Support" click "Create Case":

4.  Create a case with the following information:
Subject:  Temporary API Limits Increase
Body:
Hi Salesforce,
Can you please temporarily increase the API limits to our account?

We are using a third-party integration that requires multiple API requests for every query we send to it. We are going to be doing a data-dump from this integration with the intent of migrating our data out of that integration.

The current API limits will make this export take weeks.

Can you please temporarily increase our limit to either 500,000 or 1,000,000?
(This is for the salesforce account associated with my email)
Thank you so much


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