Limit total number of concurrent calls for a service

[dirkevertz]

Hi all,

is there a way to limit the total number of concurrent calls for a service (e.g. to limit the number of calls in flight to a maximum of 5)?

I’ve seen this thread

How to limit the number of parallel requests?

I need to limit the number of parallel requests the client can send to the API. I limited the number of requests the client can send per second to 5 (using config.second=5), however, it takes about 10 seconds to process each request. I would like that the client could not send more requests while the API is already processing let say 20 requests. Is there a way to do that with Kong?

but as this is 2 years old, there might be a better solution / plugin available in the meantime.

Regards
Dirk