Rate Limiting Plugin (EE)

Questions
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The Rate Limiting plugin for Kong Enterprise Edition is a re-engineered version of the incredibly popular Community Edition Rate Limiting plugin, with enhanced configuration options and performance.

This plugin is exclusively available to Kong Enterprise subscribers.

Rate Limiting plugin documentation

2

Where are the EE rate limiting documentation? Why are these available to EE users only? I want to see the difference in order to understand if EE rate limiting, fulfil our requirements?

Specifically, we need weekly rate limiting…

3

EE Rate Limiting documentation is currently available only to Kong EE subscribers. Please contact us to explore becoming a Kong EE subscriber.

Additional features available in EE Rate Limiting include:

  • Airbitrary window sizes - not just “per minute” or “per hour”
  • Configurable sync rate with the datastore - to permit tuning of consistency vs. performance
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@Yuval You may be interested in reading one of our recent blog posts: How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm, which explores the rate limiting approach taken by the EE rate limiting plugin.

The end of the article briefly explains some other added benefits.

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