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daniel207: a dashboard left open overnight drove D1 row reads into a very large bill.
Community user daniel207 says that while getting D1 working, a dashboard generated a large number of row-read calls and was left open overnight, causing a very large bill on a Pro plan; the product is now offline. The author sent a billing request (case 02075425), escalated it, and has had no acknowledgement. The author has since set budget warnings, says they would not have helped here, and asks Cloudflare for rate limiting or a hard pause limit. No amount is stated.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Read volume
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-04-20
- Billing outcome
- Request submittedAuthor-reported
- Case progress
- Not established
- Public Cloudflare reply
- Not linked
Latest reported outcome
The author's billing request (case 02075425) has had no acknowledgement; no outcome is reported.
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Case timeline
Author reports a large D1 row-reads bill
Open original sourceThe author says a dashboard left open overnight caused heavy D1 row reads, the product is offline, and case 02075425 has no reply.
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