The Anthropic Console — CCA-F Exam Prep

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L1.19|The Anthropic Console
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Real story
A developer's screen showing '429 Too Many Requests' errors stacking up in a terminal log. Behind the terminal, the Anthropic Console dashboard shows a usage graph with a line spiking to 90% of the monthly budget. A red warning banner at the top that was never seen. Dim, stressful office.

A developer's Claude API calls suddenly return 429 errors.

No code changes. Nothing in the logs. The API just started rejecting requests. Rate limited. Every call bouncing back.

They check the Console dashboard. They've burned through 90% of their monthly token budget. A background job was running unchecked for days, chewing through tokens.

The Console would have warned them 3 days ago. If they'd looked.