Envoy rate limit service

Envoy's global rate limit service backed by Redis.

Provider: default
Kind: Rate limiter
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://github.com/envoyproxy/ratelimit

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
backend · component property	enum	redis \| memcached	no	redis	inherited
distributed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
failMode	enum	open \| closed	no	open	▸ open
managed	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
placement	enum	edge \| gateway \| sidecar \| in-process	no	gateway	▸ gateway
scope	enum	global \| user \| ip \| api-key \| concurrency	no	user	inherited

Rules that apply · 0

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Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "envoy-ratelimit", component: "envoy-ratelimit" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Envoy global rate limit service: fixed-window counters in Redis, called from the gateway; failure mode allows traffic.
3schemaVersion: "1"
4type: "component"
5id: "envoy-ratelimit"
6kind: "rate-limiter"
7provider: "default"
8docs: "https://github.com/envoyproxy/ratelimit"
9defaults:
10  algorithm: "fixed-window"
11  placement: "gateway"
12  distributed: true
13  failMode: "open"
14properties:
15  backend:
16    type: "enum"
17    values: ["redis", "memcached"]
18    default: "redis"

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/envoy-ratelimit.md