Multiple Rate-Limit plugins on the same route

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Hello Champs,
We are running kong 2.1.4 in gateway mode on k8s.
Im looking to enable different rate limiting tiers for customers on the same routes\services.
Use Case: Client A with header ‘x-api-key: 123’ gets higher rate limit, Client B with header ‘x-api-key 321’ is getting the default rate limit setting for the route\service.

I was able to

  1. Play with the rate limit plugin and configure rate limiting based on configurable header value
    if not identifier and conf.limit_by_api_key_header == true then api_key_value= kong.request.get_header('x-api-key') if api_key_value == conf.api_key then identifier = api_key_value kong.log.err("value is: ", api_key_value) kong.log.err("identifier is: ", identifier) end end
  2. Use consumers + key-auth plugin to give each consumer its own rate limit setting

But when i have a request with ‘x-api-key’ that is not defined in one of the consumers i.e any other client that did not pay for extra rate limit, Im getting a 401 Invalid authentication credentials and the requests without consumer still land on the special rate limit route

Is there any config i can do to achieve this ?