Cloudflare Waiting Room

cloudflare Rate limitercloudflare-waiting-room

Edge queue that caps concurrent users and admits new visitors to the origin at a fixed rate.

Provider: cloudflare
Kind: Rate limiter
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waiting-room/reference/configuration-settings/

Properties · 4 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
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
jsonResponseEnabled · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
placement	enum	edge \| gateway \| sidecar \| in-process	no	gateway	▸ edge
queueingMethod · component property	enum	fifo \| random \| passthrough \| reject	no	fifo	inherited
queueingStatusCode · component property	integer	—	no	200	inherited
scope	enum	global \| user \| ip \| api-key \| concurrency	no	user	inherited
sessionDurationMinutes · component property	integer	—	no	5	inherited

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nodes:
  - { id: "waiting-room", component: "cloudflare-waiting-room" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Cloudflare Waiting Room: edge queue that admits a fixed number of new users per minute to an origin.
3# "Waiting Room configuration settings": session duration defaults to 5 minutes, the queueing status
4# code to 200, and total active users has a minimum of 200. FIFO is the queueing method for all plans.
5schemaVersion: "1"
6type: "component"
7id: "cloudflare-waiting-room"
8kind: "rate-limiter"
9provider: "cloudflare"
10docs: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/waiting-room/reference/configuration-settings/"
11defaults:
12  managed: true
13  algorithm: "fixed-window"
14  placement: "edge"
15  distributed: true
16properties:
17  queueingMethod:
18    type: "enum"
19    values: ["fifo", "random", "passthrough", "reject"]
20    default: "fifo"
21  sessionDurationMinutes:
22    type: "integer"
23    default: 5
24  queueingStatusCode:
25    type: "integer"
26    default: 200
27  jsonResponseEnabled:
28    type: "boolean"
29    default: false

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