[GitHub Actions]: Create Artifact Container failed: Artifact storage quota has been hit. Unable to upload any new artifacts

Question

I have a GitHub workflow that creates APKs for my Flutter app. This worked fine until recently, I seem to have exhausted some kind of quota. Now when the workflow runs I get this error:

Create Artifact Container failed: Artifact storage quota has been hit. Unable to upload any new artifacts

I assumed that deleting all artifacts would free up the space again so I used another workflow to achieve this:

name: 'Delete old artifacts'

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
      - develop
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - master
      - develop

jobs:
  delete-artifacts:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: kolpav/purge-artifacts-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          expire-in: 0days

The new workflow seems to be working, I no longer see the old files in the GitHub UI. However, I still get the error when trying to run the APK workflow. Any ideas how to fix this error?

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Update:

My GitHub says I have used up my included services (free version). Is there a way to undo that? Simply deleting the artifacts does not seem to be enough.

Answer 1

You can actually delete old artifacts to bypass this. Just go to your actions, click on a previous build and check if there are stored artifacts at the bottom of the page. There is a recycle bin icon you can click to delete it.

You can also specify when Github deletes old artifacts automatically for you. You go into Settings -> Actions -> General and find "Artifact and log retention".

Note it might take some time for Github to update the completed quota.

See also official docs.