Rate Limiting with Kong Gateway
Capabilities
Kong Gateway allows you to limit how many HTTP requests can be made in a given period.
Rate limits can be applied to a service or individual routes to protect the upstream API, or to a consumer to restrict how many times a user can call the API in the specified period.
Kong offers two standard HTTP rate limiting plugins: Rate Limiting or Rate Limiting Advanced plugins in addition to a series specialized AI, GraphQL and dynamic rate limiting plugins.
| Rate Limiting | Rate Limiting Advanced | |
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Rate limit based on consumer, consumer-group, credential, ip and service
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| Basic Redis support | ||
| Redis Sentinel, Cluster + SSL support | ||
| Fixed window rate limits | ||
| Advanced rate limiting algorithms e.g. Leaky bucket, Sliding window | ||
Enhanced window size configuration
Configure custom intervals beyond standard options like second or minute.
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| Precise counter control Specify whether blocked requests count towards the rate limit calculation. |
