Load test with Discourse

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Note, for anyone trying to do their own Discourse load testing like Simon, not only do you need to edit the MAX_ADMIN_API_REQS, you also need to comment out web.ratelimited.template.yml

Something like:

/var/discourse/containers/app.yml

templates:
   - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
   - "templates/redis.template.yml"
   - "templates/web.template.yml"
 # - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"

...
env:
   LANG: en_US.UTF-8
   DISCOURSE_MAX_ADMIN_API_REQS_PER_KEY_PER_MINUTE: 10000
...

Otherwise, you’ll probably hit the nginx rate limits on requests per IP address. If you see response code 429 (Too many requests) even after increasing the MAX ADMIN API REQS… this is why.

Also note that YAML variables use “:”, so if you copy and paste Simon’s DISCOURSE_MAX_ADMIN_API_REQS_PER_KEY_PER_MINUTE=10000 you’ll get a YAML parsing error about a colon…