# Rate limiting seems not working in kubernetes

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-seems-not-working-in-kubernetes/7411>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** kubernetes\
**Created:** [November 8, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-seems-not-working-in-kubernetes/7411 "2020-11-08T12:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![azizg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@azizg](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/azizg)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-seems-not-working-in-kubernetes/7411/1 "2020-11-08T12:39:57Z")

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Hello  
We are trying Kong on kubernetes but maybe i miss something.  
rate-limiting seems not working on my ingress.  
here my ingress  
Name: app-ingress  
Namespace: default  
Address: 192.168.1.161  
Default backend: default-http-backend:80 (\<error: endpoints “default-http-backend” not found\>)  
Rules:  
Host Path Backends

* * *

[www.nextvision.com](http://www.nextvision.com)  
/users user-service:80 10.244.1.34:80)  
/customer customer-service:80 10.244.1.35:80)  
Annotations: [konghq.com/plugins:](http://konghq.com/plugins:) rate-limit  
[kubernetes.io/ingress.class:](http://kubernetes.io/ingress.class:) kong  
Events:   
root@k1master:/home/azizg/kubedata# k get kongplugins  
NAME PLUGIN-TYPE AGE  
rate-limit rate-limiting 18m

and here is the plugin  
NAME PLUGIN-TYPE AGE  
rate-limit rate-limiting 18m  
root@k1master:/home/azizg/kubedata# k describe kongplugins rate-limit  
Name: rate-limit  
Namespace: default  
Labels:   
Annotations:   
API Version: [configuration.konghq.com/v1](http://configuration.konghq.com/v1)  
Config:  
Miniute: 2  
Policy: local  
Kind: KongPlugin  
Metadata:  
Creation Timestamp: 2020-11-08T12:10:11Z  
Generation: 1  
Managed Fields:  
API Version: [configuration.konghq.com/v1](http://configuration.konghq.com/v1)  
Fields Type: FieldsV1  
fieldsV1:  
f:config:  
.:  
f:miniute:  
f:policy:  
f:metadata:  
f:annotations:  
.:  
f:kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration:  
f:plugin:  
Manager: kubectl-client-side-apply  
Operation: Update  
Time: 2020-11-08T12:10:11Z  
Resource Version: 173762  
Self Link: /apis/configuration.konghq.com/v1/namespaces/default/kongplugins/rate-limit  
UID: 0b3c7948-56f9-4ca9-8cb3-96e39288a853  
Plugin: rate-limiting  
Events:

the service still respond indefenitly…  
could you please tell what is wrong ?  
thank you for your help

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**Author:** ![traines](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/traines/32/158_2.png) [@traines](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/traines)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-seems-not-working-in-kubernetes/7411/2 "2020-11-12T19:15:50Z")

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Can you provide examples of the requests you’re sending with their request and response headers (e.g. by using something like `curl -svo /dev/null http://www.nextvision.com/users`)?

If you check the [Kong Admin API](https://docs.konghq.com/2.2.x/admin-api/#list-plugins), is your plugin present? Although it’s not usually exposed outside the Pod for controller-managed instances, you can use a [port forward](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/port-forward-access-application-cluster/) to access it from your local machine–most configurations serve it over HTTPS on port 8444.

Using [code blocks](https://commonmark.org/help/) (the example is near the bottom) will help us spot the issue a bit more easily–what you’ve shown looks correct, but it’s a bit hard to read because our forum software won’t preserve indentation in normal text.