Rate limiter

edgerate-limiter

Bounds request or concurrency rate per key.

Category: Edge
Properties: 7
Components: 7
Rules: 0

Properties · 7 defined by this kind

A node of this kind resolves each property from its own props, then the component's defaults, then the default below.

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

Rules for this kind · 0

No rule selects this kind or its category. Governance calls that a recorded gap.

Components · 7

vendor-neutral

Generic rate limiterrate-limitergenericthe kind itself

cloudflare

Cloudflare Rate Limitingcloudflare-rate-limiting5 defaults Cloudflare Waiting Roomcloudflare-waiting-room4 defaults

default

Envoy rate limit serviceenvoy-ratelimit4 defaults In-process rate limiterin-process-limiter3 defaults NGINX limit_reqnginx-limit-req4 defaults Redis rate limiterredis-rate-limiter2 defaults

Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../schema/kind.schema.json
2# Abstract kind: Bounds request or concurrency rate per key (token bucket at the edge, Envoy ratelimit, in-process semaphores, adaptive limiters).
3schemaVersion: "1"
4type: "kind"
5id: "rate-limiter"
6category: "edge"
7properties:
8  algorithm:
9    type: "enum"
10    values: ["token-bucket", "leaky-bucket", "sliding-window", "fixed-window", "adaptive"]
11    default: "token-bucket"
12  scope:
13    type: "enum"
14    values: ["global", "user", "ip", "api-key", "concurrency"]
15    default: "user"
16  failMode:
17    type: "enum"
18    values: ["open", "closed"]
19    default: "open"
20  placement:
21    type: "enum"
22    values: ["edge", "gateway", "sidecar", "in-process"]
23    default: "gateway"
24  distributed:
25    type: "boolean"
26    default: false
27  atomicOps:
28    type: "boolean"
29    default: true
30    advanced: true
31  managed:
32    type: "boolean"
33    default: false

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