Frequent "Something went wrong while executing your query" errors: DFEC:F8D2B:4DCD74:4F3C7E:68B845DF

[briannafan]

Hi! I'm running the following query every 15 minutes and it fails periodically with this error.

Something went wrong while executing your query on 2025-09-03T13:43:03Z. Please include DFEC:F8D2B:4DCD74:4F3C7E:68B845DF when reporting this issue.

I'm not sure what might be the issue, considering we're likely not hitting the rate limit and it's a simple query. I added timeouts and retries, which only sometimes helps. (See https://ews-build.webkit.org/#/builders/40/builds/68171.)

query {
   repository(owner: "WebKit", name: "WebKit") {
      pullRequests(labels: "safe-merge-queue") {
        totalCount
      }
    }
}

Here are the reference numbers for some of the most recent failures:

• DFEC:F8D2B:4DCD74:4F3C7E:68B845DF
• 6180:3737AA:47C242:4933D6:68B845F6
• 77C0:2B0557:3EBA4D:401F10:68B8461D
• E9BA:2B79E8:4517A1:468434:68B84652

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[eres45]

I’ve seen this as well and from what I can tell the query itself is valid, so the failures aren’t due to syntax or rate limits but rather intermittent internal server errors . To work around it I’ve added retries with exponential backoff, and I also log the full error details so I can share them with the infra team for debugging. The errors seem transient, so making the client resilient with retries helps, and providing the collected error IDs/timestamps should make it easier for maintainers to trace the root cause

[briannafan]

Thanks for the response! I did add 3 retry attempts, up to 45 seconds. That helped a lot, but we're still seeing these issues.
The full error messages and timestamps are already logged (one is shared above).

What infra team and maintainers are you referring to? GitHub or your organization's?

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