What happens if the Cloudflare API rate limit is exceeded during certificate issuance?

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What happens if the Cloudflare API rate limit is exceeded during certificate issuance?
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If the Cloudflare API rate limit is exceeded, Certbot will likely fail. You can try waiting a short period and retrying the command. Consider optimizing your DNS record configuration in Cloudflare to reduce the number of API calls. Using a dedicated API token helps isolate rate limits.