I'm running an automated bot via SmartAPI (Python SDK) that calls
getCandleData once every 15 minutes, only during market hours
(9:15 AM - 3:30 PM IST).

Every day, the first call after market open fails with AG8001
"Invalid Token" (session expired overnight - expected). My code
automatically re-logs in right after.

However, after that re-login, EVERY subsequent call for the rest
of the day fails with:
"Access denied because of exceeding access rate"

This happens even though I'm only making 1 request every 15
minutes - well under your documented limits (3/sec, 180/min).
It resets by the next morning, then repeats the same pattern.

Details:

• API Key: [8Gqbz7Ah]
• Client ID: [P139808]
• Server IP: 35.244.60.38
• Error first appears: ~9:15 AM IST daily, after re-login
• Example timestamp: Oct 01 2026, 03:53:56 UTC (login),
  04:24:02 UTC (first rate-limit error)

Could you check if my IP or API key is flagged/throttled at the
gateway level? This is blocking my dry-run testing.