We installed one plugin in our discourse platform. but suddenly page shows “Slow down, too Many Requests from this IP Address” . it seems we need to change discourse ngnix settings. is there any solution to this problem ?

The discourse-topic-organiser plugin is creating too many Ajax calls - it needs to be made more efficient [image] Discourse-topic-organizer causing "Slow down, too Many Requests from this IP Address" Support Do you also have the discourse-topic-organizer …

Are the ip addresses coming from the actual user ip addresses or do they appear to come from a reverse proxy?

I also saw this recently for the first time when opening up several tabs from links on a page. We have just moved the site to being a local nginx reverse proxy to provide for a maintenance splash page. (Perhaps the user’s origin IP is not being passed to Discourse somewhere? Or maybe this isn’t the…

See Available settings for global rate limits and throttling . If you open multiple tabs or if you have a corporate IP (or even just two or three users working on the same internet line), it is easy to hit the rate limit.

[image] downey: We have just moved the site to being a local nginx reverse proxy to provide for a maintenance splash page. Yup. And since then every IP is that of the reverse proxy. [image] downey: Perhaps the user’s origin IP is not being passed to Discourse somewhere? That’s my gues…

[image] pfaffman: It’s probably logging the reverse proxy for all IPs. Hmm, that seemed right, but loooking at the “internal” nginx access logs shows the real IP’s being passed through. :man_shrugging:

Too bad. That was the easy solution. Some plugins and theme components can generate lots of requests. Or maybe you just opened a zillion tabs and you caused this problem yourself. :wink:

below i mentioned plugin url of github. GitHub - siddhudhangar/discourse-topic-organizer · GitHub if any suggestions are there then let us know.

Request is coming via reverse proxy but I have white listed IP address of proxy in discourse “screened_ip_addresses” settings.

I am also having this problem. So is one of the moderators of our site.

Discourse-topic-organizer causing "Slow down, too Many Requests from this IP Address"

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osioke (Osioke Itseuwa) January 31, 2020, 12:32pm 2

Would you mind sharing the name of the plugin? That would help see or know what can be done.

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