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…

429 too many requests good or bad ? (please help)

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) August 23, 2026, 2:35pm 4

If you want to adjust the thresholds, see:

Topic		Replies	Views
429 too many requests Self-hosting	4	2844	September 13, 2019
429 Too Many Requests on /admin/upgrade page Self-hosting	11	5015	April 28, 2017
429 error with api Support	4	1129	March 26, 2021
429 too many requests using internally nginx Self-hosting	1	1712	April 23, 2020
Oops error due to database timeout Self-hosting	13	837	April 15, 2021

429 too many requests good or bad ? (please help)

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