Change notifications lifetime to be longer

Question

Hi All,

I am using Microsoft graph change notification to monitor the changes of Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and Sharepoint. Always hit the throttling issue with more traffics. How can we manage the throttling for this scenario? Any recommendation to avoid this issue?

Also the subscription lifetime is up to 3 days. Is there anyway to make the lifetime longer than 3 days? How can we manage this change notifications subscription issue?

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Hello Vee,

Good day and thank you for your question.

For throttling, to avoid it and for best practices, please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/throttling.

For the subscription lifetime, mostly, it is under 3 days (4,230 minutes). It is also noted that:

Note: Existing applications and new applications should not exceed the supported value. In the future, any requests to create or renew a subscription beyond the maximum value will fail.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/subscription?view=graph-rest-1.0#maximum-length-of-subscription-per-resource-type