Both scheduled & action triggered automations are enabled on my board but won't trigger, why?

[Anna Artinger]

I've been using trello for years and I set up a bunch of automations (both scheduled and triggered by user action) to make it more efficient so I can focus on managing people and not the trello board. For the five days or so (today is 5/27/26) none of my automations have been working. I've triple checked that they're still enabled on the board and tried disabling and re-enabling them, but neither type of automation triggers anymore. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Is it just a bug?

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski · Accepted solution]

Hello @Anna Artinger 

Maybe you hitted hard limit ?

On Trello Free, automation limits are pooled across the entire workspace rather than split per user or board. If your rules suddenly stop executing, check your usage by going to Automation → Activity → Workspace activity.

Once that shared monthly quota is completely 0, all enabled commands will pause until the next cycle resets the counter.

Please also do a small test: create a new one and check how it behaves there.

Best,

Arkadiusz🤠

[Anna Artinger]

That's exactly what happened. I'm new to automating on trello and didn't even know there was a limit. Thank you!

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

@Anna Artinger 

Hey! It's totally okay not to know everything. Atlassian is a pretty big system!

Glad we could help you out.

Have a great day!

Best,

Arkadiusz 🤠☀️

[Tamara Huang]

Funny how those limits sneak up on you. I’ve been bitten by that before, so now I keep an eye on the workspace automation log anytime things act weird. If you ever bump into this again, clearing out old or duplicate rules can buy you some breathing room without upgrading. Sometimes a tiny cleanup goes a long way.