Rate limiting

What is rate limiting

Rate limiting manages how many HTTP requests are made in a given period of time.

Why we use it

It helps in not overloading backend services. Tenants are able to use this on their own application to track the transaction flow.

apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
kind: KongPlugin
metadata:
  name: rate-limiting-example
config:
  second: 5 #how many HTTP request calls can be hit per second
  hour: 10000 #how many HTTP request calls can be hit per hour
  policy: local
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apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata: 
  name: <your_ingress_name>
  namespace: <your_namespace>
  annotations:
    konghq.com/plugins: rate-limiting-example

spec:
  ingressClassName: kong
  #rest of your yamlCopy to clipboardErrorCopied

To understand more on rate limit, you can visit https://docs.konghq.com/hub/kong-inc/rate-limiting.