Cloudflare Rate Limiting

cloudflare Rate limitercloudflare-rate-limiting

Edge rate limiting rules on the Cloudflare network.

Provider: cloudflare
Kind: Rate limiter
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/rate-limiting-rules/

Properties · 5 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
action · component property	enum	block \| challenge \| log	no	block	inherited
algorithm	enum	token-bucket \| leaky-bucket \| sliding-window \| fixed-window \| adaptive	no	token-bucket	▸ fixed-window
atomicOps · advanced	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
distributed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
failMode	enum	open \| closed	no	open	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
placement	enum	edge \| gateway \| sidecar \| in-process	no	gateway	▸ edge
scope	enum	global \| user \| ip \| api-key \| concurrency	no	user	▸ ip

Rules that apply · 0

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No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "rate-limiting", component: "cloudflare-rate-limiting" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Cloudflare Rate Limiting: managed at the edge, fixed counting periods keyed by IP by default, blocks when exceeded.
3schemaVersion: "1"
4type: "component"
5id: "cloudflare-rate-limiting"
6kind: "rate-limiter"
7provider: "cloudflare"
8docs: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/rate-limiting-rules/"
9defaults:
10  managed: true
11  algorithm: "fixed-window"
12  scope: "ip"
13  placement: "edge"
14  distributed: true
15properties:
16  action:
17    type: "enum"
18    values: ["block", "challenge", "log"]
19    default: "block"

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/cloudflare-rate-limiting.md