Environment

• Jenkins Version: 2.516.2

• GitHub Branch Source Plugin: 1848.v42f74f7f4500

• GitHub API Plugin: 1.330-492.v3941a_032db_2a_

• GitHub: Enterprise (using GitHub App authentication)

Context

• Jenkins is integrated with GitHub Enterprise using a GitHub App for authentication and API calls.

• Webhooks are used to trigger Jenkins builds per service.

Issue

• We are experiencing very high API call usage against GitHub’s core API.

• Within a 40-minute period, the reported rate limit headers show:

• • x-ratelimit-limit: 15000

• • x-ratelimit-remaining: 2953

• • x-ratelimit-reset: 1757590036

• • x-ratelimit-used: 12047

• • x-ratelimit-resource: core

This means more than 12,000 API calls are consumed in just ~40 minutes, which seems excessive.

Investigation

• After contacting GitHub Support, they informed us that Jenkins is frequently calling the rate limit checker and /meta endpoints, causing unnecessary API load.

Request

• Please advise how to reduce or prevent this excessive API usage.

• Is this a known issue in the GitHub Branch Source or GitHub API Plugin?

• Are there recommended configuration changes, patches, or updated plugin versions that mitigate this problem?