Rate Limiting calls per client AND total calls across clients possible?

Traefik Traefik v3 (latest)
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Hi,

We are currently using Traefik, but are unsure if the following scenario is supported.

  1. Rate limiting per client calling a given route, so each client can only call 100 times per minute lets say.
  2. At the same time, also limit the total amount of calls for a given route across clients to 1000 per minute

In practice this would mean that 1. ensures each client does not starve the other while 2. ensures overall throttling/limit on a given resource in a time period.

Is this at all possible with Traefiks RateLimit middleware, or is only part 1. possible?

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It sounds like you are going pro, not sure if the middleware will work across multiple Traefik instances.

So you might need to create your own plugin, to have a central counter for example in Redis, to be used by a Traefik cluster.

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THe issue is not the amount of Traefik instances. It is just if it is possible to solve both 1 and 2 - even with a single instance of Traefik.

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You can try to assign two middlewares to the router, for second one group all IPs.

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