Redis rate limiter

Rate limiterredis-rate-limiter

Application rate limiter using Redis counters and Lua scripts.

Provider: default
Kind: Rate limiter
Category: Edge
Official docs: https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/use/patterns/

Properties · 2 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	inherited
atomicOps · advanced	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true
distributed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
failMode	enum	open \| closed	no	open	inherited
luaScripted · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
placement	enum	edge \| gateway \| sidecar \| in-process	no	gateway	inherited
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: "redis-rate-limiter", component: "redis-rate-limiter" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Redis-backed rate limiter: distributed counters, atomic via Lua scripts. Algorithm varies by library.
3schemaVersion: "1"
4type: "component"
5id: "redis-rate-limiter"
6kind: "rate-limiter"
7provider: "default"
8docs: "https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/use/patterns/"
9defaults:
10  distributed: true
11  atomicOps: true
12properties:
13  luaScripted:
14    type: "boolean"
15    default: true

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