How to determine what is causing RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED?

[Peter Koning]

How can I see what's causing my API limits to be reached? I get the error 
when trying to enable or pause a campaign, but I only do that once/day. So 
something else is hitting my API hard - probably a thirrd party service 
that monitors my ads.

I need to see a report of my API calls so I can confirm what's using up my 
quota.

Where is there such a report?

Thanks.

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Re: How to create a test account: UI or API?

[Peter Koning]

Hi Peter - thanks for the thorough answer. This helps. 

Re the multiple account warning I'm referring to answers to "how to create 
a test account" questions and answers in the adwords help from API users 
such as this one:  
https://www.google.com/tools/feedback/content_frame?type=IN_APP&locale=en&authuser=0&msgid=46366139
   


On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 10:06:01 PM UTC-8 adsapiforumadvisor wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Thank you for your questions. 
>
> For item #1, this section 
> 
>  
> provides the specific link  you 
> can use to create your test MCC account. The link for creating production 
> accounts is a separate link as well. Now, after clicking on the link and 
> when redirected, you can click on the *+ NEW GOOGLE ADS ACCOUNT*. This 
> should then allow you to create the test MCC account. Certain details maybe 
> required for you to supply to complete the process.
>
> For the item #2, the information provided was for the UI direction to 
> create the test client accounts as it was also considered that at this 
> point in the documentation, the API setup may not be complete yet and 
> creating client accounts via the API may still not be possible. For the 
> steps to create accounts using the UI, you can refer to this guide 
> . Accounts 
> created under a test MCC account is automatically a test client account.
>
> As for creating test client accounts under a test MCC using the Google Ads 
> API, you can refer to this guide 
> 
>  
> instead. You will need to specify a test MCC account as the customer-id. 
> Also, when creating test accounts, billing information is not required.
>
> Moving forward to the suspension about creating multiple accounts, could 
> you provide more information regarding this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> [image: Google Logo] 
> Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino 
> Google Ads API Team 
>   
>
> ref:_00D1U1174p._5004Q2B1ieD:ref
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How to create a test account: UI or API?

[Peter Koning]

I'm trying to learn to use the Ads API and according to the quickstart for 
the API I need a test manager account and a test client account to try out 
my sample code and eventually test my app.

When I read the quickstart documentation at 
https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/first-call/overview?hl=en_US 
it gives very vague instructions on how to make the test accounts. 

This page says:

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Production accounts serve ads that are rendered to users, and billing is 
involved. Test accounts won't affect your live ads or charge your account, 
hence, they're a useful way to experiment with the API. Because test 
accounts don't serve any actual ads, impressions or cost data associated 
with them will be empty.

Follow the instructions below to create a test manager account, a test 
client account, and a few campaigns to populate the test client account. 
Note that "client" here refers to a Google Ads client account, not your 
client app.

   1. 
   
   Go to the Google Ads manager accounts page 
    and create a test manager 
   account.
   2. 
   
   Use the Google Ads UI to create a test client account under the test 
   manager account you created above. While logged in to Google Ads as your 
   test manager account, any client accounts you create will automatically be 
   test accounts.
   
...
==

I feel that these instructions are so vague - they really don't tell you 
step by step what to do.

This page raises 2 questions for me:
1) In step 1 how do I actually create a test manager account? Do I simply 
create a normal manager account and name it "test"? So then it's not really 
a test account just a new normal account w/ "test" in the name, right?

2) In step 2 it talks about using the UI. Doesn't it really mean use the 
API? From what I've read the API will create a test account if you use your 
test token and credentials. If I do need to use the UI, what are the exact 
steps to create a test client account w/ no billing etc.??? People talk 
about red flags marking their test accounts but I don't know how to get 
these test accounts. I've also read in the ad help forum that you can be 
suspended for making multiple client accounts, and it appears other devs 
have fallen into this trap.

I'd love to hear the answers to 1 and 2 so I can at least get to the point 
of running some sample php code.

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