# How does rate limiting work in traefik

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/how-does-rate-limiting-work-in-traefik/16398>\
**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** kubernetes-ingress, middleware, kubernetes-crd\
**Created:** [November 7, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/how-does-rate-limiting-work-in-traefik/16398 "2022-11-07T16:03:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![madeinindiadot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/madeinindiadot/32/3715_2.png) [@madeinindiadot](https://community.traefik.io/u/madeinindiadot)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/how-does-rate-limiting-work-in-traefik/16398/1 "2022-11-07T16:03:02Z")

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I want to understand how ratelimiting works? Lets say I have a HA k8 cluster I have currently setup traefik as a daemonset with kubernetes crd. If I set a middleware to perform ratelimiting, will it look for requests at a perticular node level or will it be a distributed ratelimiting across all the worker nodes?

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**Author:** ![douglasdtm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/douglasdtm/32/2002_2.png) [@douglasdtm](https://community.traefik.io/u/douglasdtm)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/how-does-rate-limiting-work-in-traefik/16398/2 "2022-11-11T17:31:22Z")

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Hi @madeinindiadot

We have a very detailed [glossary page on rate limiting](https://traefik.io/glossary/rate-limiting-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters/) that may help clarify how it works.

It is not distributed as that would require coordination (state) between instances.