Rate limits for API users

sam · March 17, 2020, 6:08am

I recommend reading through our rate limits here:

config/discourse_defaults.conf

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          ### rate limits apply to all sites
          max_user_api_reqs_per_minute = 20
          max_user_api_reqs_per_day = 2880
          
          max_admin_api_reqs_per_key_per_minute = 60
          
          max_reqs_per_ip_per_minute = 200
          max_reqs_per_ip_per_10_seconds = 50
          
          # applies to asset type routes (avatars/css and so on)
          max_asset_reqs_per_ip_per_10_seconds = 200
          
          # global rate limiter will simply warn if the limit is exceeded, can be warn+block, warn, block or none
          max_reqs_per_ip_mode = block
          
          # bypass rate limiting any IP resolved as a private IP
          max_reqs_rate_limit_on_private = false

We should have documentation for various other limits floating around meta.

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Rate limits for API users

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