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I'm using an Arduino and through a library working with an IC (MCP2515, a CAN controller) over SPI. The IC indicates interrupts by causing a falling edge on an interrupt pin.

Components are connected using jumper wires on a breadboard.

• When a logic analyzer is not attached, the IRQ gets called a few hundred times. It should only be called once. I thought it must be noise on the external interrupt pin but a pull-up doesn't help. I've tried the internal pullup and an external one.
• Trying to see if there is a ton of interrupts from the IC, or an error internal to the Arduino, I attach my logic analyzer. Now it works perfect.

Any idea what might cause such a weird issue? Looking around I haven't found anything.

EDIT: I found a Reddit post for a different circuit where a user suggested placing a small capacitor to make the edges of a signal rise slower. This has fixed my problem.

Since I've already created a post: does anyone know why I was getting an unending number of interrupts? Why would the edges of the interrupt signal changing too fast cause something like this?