# 429 too many requests

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/429-too-many-requests/128350>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [September 12, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/429-too-many-requests/128350 "2019-09-12T01:08:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/429-too-many-requests/128350/1 "2019-09-12T01:08:54Z")

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Hey everyone, I know there are “too many requests” topics before, but this one seems to not 100% fit the bill.

I’m getting intermittent 429 errors in discourse (and everything’s fairly slow in general) with this backtrace

```plaintext
Error: Too Many Requests
    at s (https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:9:9188)
    at a (https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:9:9045)
    at o (https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:9:8936)
    at Object.trigger (https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:18:7223)
    at https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:18:9212
    at t.invoke (https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:16:9729)
    at e.t.flush (https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:16:8732)
    at e.t.flush (https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:16:10782)
    at e.n._end (https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:16:15440)
    at e.n.end (https://discourse.looker.com/assets/ember_jquery-d430881a3fb1403871256e5a02423c4b20a78793685e92088613ca9a701baf88.js:16:12110)

```

It’s always that .js link, which is a pretty impressive block of JS that doesn’t really mean anything to me. The instance running discourse seems to be under minimal load— 10% of CPU, everything else seems fairly nominal, so it’s a bit confusing to me that I’d be getting 429 errors.

Are there settings I can up somewhere to change global rate limiting? The instance can handle much more load than discourse seems to think, or I’m missing something greater caused by a plugin or bug.

Thanks!

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