I just started using Sonarr a week ago. I am using Nzbplant for an indexer. The first day or two went fairly well for searches and grabs. After that, I would blow through 4000-5000 api requests and get only a handful of actual downloads started with Sabnzbd. I don’t know what to do to fix this.
RSS Sync at 15 minutes will result in 96 a day.
Failed downloads will result in 1 extra search for per failure, if 1 episode failed 100 times that’s 100 requests.
If you’re backfilling a lot of episodes that are failing you’re going to use a large number of API calls up.