hello i am using uptimerobot and a few times a week i get 429 for 1-5 minutes but thats what i see on the logs. Root cause HTTP 429 - Too Many Requests Incident started at 2026-08-23 10:42:58 Resolved at 2026-08-23 10:48:05 Duration 5 minutes and 7 seconds Location Ashburn, USA - IP 5.161…

If I’m not wrong, yes, it only affects the client sending the flurry of requests.

should i ignore this or i should change something to increase the limit ?

If you want to adjust the thresholds, see: [image] Available settings for global rate limits and throttling Self-Hosting Discourse ships with 3 different global rate limits that can be configured by site admins. Global per-ip rate limits These limits apply t…

[image] aLinux: with reverse proxy from hestiacp that probably means that all requests appear to be coming from the same IP and lots of users are getting 429 errors. Go to admin/users and look at what IP address you see for yourself and another user. If they are the same then you need to conf…

just checked and i have the same internal ip as the other users ! :frowning: how can i fix this ?

Are you running behind cloudflare? I am going through this game as well :slight_smile:

yes, but the problem is that all users have the same ip.. added this to app.yml and im testing right now run: replace: filename: /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf from: “server {” to: | server { set_real_ip_from 192.168.1.250; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; real_ip_recursive on; exec: ec…

If you’re using Cloudflare then you want the Cloudflare template. It seems to be impossible to find the canonical topic about that, so maybe try https://ask.discourse.com/ – I was able to get an AI-generated message about what to do, but not where to find the discussion about it. It makes me sad th…

well.. yeah asked chatgpt , made a backup before and then did a test. so far so good :smiley:

I would always use https://ask.discourse.com/ rather than a generic AI (unless you’re actively coding and the AI has access to the Discourse code).

429 trop de requêtes, c'est bon ou pas ? (aidez-moi)

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) Août 23, 2026, 2:25 2

Si je ne me trompe pas, oui, cela ne concerne que le client qui envoie la rafale de requêtes.

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429 trop de requêtes, c'est bon ou pas ? (aidez-moi)

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