communication config_error ai_generated true

Metadata size exceeds maximum allowed

ID: communication/grpc-metadata-limit

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82%Fix Rate
86%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
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Root Cause

gRPC metadata (headers) exceeds size limit.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Move large data from metadata to request body
  2. 85% success Increase limit per-channel if needed: grpc.max_metadata_size

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Increase metadata limit to unlimited 82% fail

    Memory abuse vector

  2. Compress metadata values 75% fail

    May break encoding expectations