# How to configure rate-limits?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-rate-limits/248613>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 15, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-rate-limits/248613 "2020-09-15T07:08:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Dmitriy\_Khodakovskyi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dmitriy_khodakovskyi/32/75570_2.png) [@Dmitriy\_Khodakovskyi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dmitriy_Khodakovskyi)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-rate-limits/248613/1 "2020-09-15T07:08:31Z")

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As I see , elasticsearch has support of rate limiting:

> **[Rate limiting | Elasticsearch Service Documentation | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-api-rate-limiting.html)**

Is it available only for elastic cloud ? or it can be configured for self-hosted elastic? (and how?)

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-rate-limits/248613/2 "2020-09-15T07:40:37Z")

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I believe this is Elastic Cloud specific.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-rate-limits/248613/3 "2020-09-15T07:43:46Z")

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That's correct, it's not native to Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![Dmitriy\_Khodakovskyi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dmitriy_khodakovskyi/32/75570_2.png) [@Dmitriy\_Khodakovskyi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dmitriy_Khodakovskyi)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-rate-limits/248613/4 "2020-09-15T08:07:43Z")

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@warkolm thanks. maybe you a way how to throttle api requests (search requests) on elastisearch side? or it's possible only via rate-limiting functional?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-rate-limits/248613/5 "2020-09-15T08:18:04Z")

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In Elastic Cloud I suspect the rate limiting is performed at the proxy layer. There is as far as I know no way to do this in Elasticsearch itself.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-rate-limits/248613/6 "2020-10-13T08:18:11Z")

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