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title: "Traefik RateLimit Documentation"
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description: "Traefik Proxy's HTTP RateLimit middleware ensures Services receive fair amounts of requests. Read the technical documentation."
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---
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The `rateLimit` middleware ensures that services will receive a *fair* amount of requests, and allows you to define what fair is.
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It is based on a [token bucket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_bucket) implementation.
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In this analogy, the `average` and `period` parameters define the **rate** at which the bucket refills, and the `burst` is the size (volume) of the bucket
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## Rate and Burst
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The rate is defined by dividing `average` by `period`.
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For a rate below 1 req/s, define a `period` larger than a second
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## Configuration Example
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```yaml tab="Structured (YAML)"
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# Here, an average of 100 requests per second is allowed.
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# In addition, a burst of 200 requests is allowed.
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http:
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middlewares:
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test-ratelimit:
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rateLimit:
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average: 100
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burst: 200
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```
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```toml tab="Structured (TOML)"
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# Here, an average of 100 requests per second is allowed.
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# In addition, a burst of 200 requests is allowed.
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[http.middlewares]
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[http.middlewares.test-ratelimit.rateLimit]
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average = 100
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burst = 200
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```
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```yaml tab="Labels"
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# Here, an average of 100 requests per second is allowed.
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# In addition, a burst of 200 requests is allowed.
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labels:
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- "traefik.http.middlewares.test-ratelimit.ratelimit.average=100"
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- "traefik.http.middlewares.test-ratelimit.ratelimit.burst=200"
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```
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```json tab="Tags"
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// Here, an average of 100 requests per second is allowed.
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// In addition, a burst of 200 requests is allowed.
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{
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"Tags": [
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"traefik.http.middlewares.test-ratelimit.ratelimit.average=100",
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"traefik.http.middlewares.test-ratelimit.ratelimit.burst=50"
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]
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}
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```
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```yaml tab="Kubernetes"
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# Here, an average of 100 requests per second is allowed.
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# In addition, a burst of 200 requests is allowed.
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apiVersion: traefik.io/v1alpha1
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kind: Middleware
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metadata:
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name: test-ratelimit
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spec:
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rateLimit:
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average: 100
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burst: 200
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```
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## Configuration Options
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| Field | Description | Default | Required |
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|:-----------|:-------------------------------------------------------|:--------|:---------|
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| `average` | Number of requests used to define the rate using the `period`.<br /> 0 means **no rate limiting**.<br />More information [here](#rate-and-burst). | 0 | No |
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| `period` | Period of time used to define the rate.<br />More information [here](#rate-and-burst). | 1s | No |
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| `burst` | Maximum number of requests allowed to go through at the very same moment.<br />More information [here](#rate-and-burst).| 1 | No |
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| `sourceCriterion.requestHost` | Whether to consider the request host as the source.<br />More information about `sourceCriterion`[here](#sourcecriterion). | false | No |
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| `sourceCriterion.requestHeaderName` | Name of the header used to group incoming requests.<br />More information about `sourceCriterion`[here](#sourcecriterion). | "" | No |
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| `sourceCriterion.ipStrategy.depth` | Depth position of the IP to select in the `X-Forwarded-For` header (starting from the right).<br />0 means no depth.<br />If greater than the total number of IPs in `X-Forwarded-For`, then the client IP is empty<br />If higher than 0, the `excludedIPs` options is not evaluated.<br />More information about [`sourceCriterion`](#sourcecriterion), [`ipStrategy`](#ipstrategy), and [`depth`](#sourcecriterionipstrategydepth) below. | 0 | No |
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| `sourceCriterion.ipStrategy.excludedIPs` | Allows scanning the `X-Forwarded-For` header and select the first IP not in the list.<br />If `depth` is specified, `excludedIPs` is ignored.<br />More information about [`sourceCriterion`](#sourcecriterion), [`ipStrategy`](#ipstrategy), and [`excludedIPs`](#sourcecriterionipstrategyexcludedips) below. | | No |
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| `sourceCriterion.ipStrategy.ipv6Subnet` | If `ipv6Subnet` is provided and the selected IP is IPv6, the IP is transformed into the first IP of the subnet it belongs to. <br />More information about [`sourceCriterion`](#sourcecriterion), [`ipStrategy.ipv6Subnet`](#sourcecriterionipstrategyipv6subnet) below. | | No |
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### sourceCriterion
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The `sourceCriterion` option defines what criterion is used to group requests as originating from a common source.
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If several strategies are defined at the same time, an error will be raised.
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If none are set, the default is to use the request's remote address field (as an `ipStrategy`).
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### ipStrategy
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The `ipStrategy` option defines three parameters that configures how Traefik determines the client IP: `depth`, `excludedIPs` and `ipv6Subnet`.
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As a middleware, rate-limiting happens before the actual proxying to the backend takes place.
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In addition, the previous network hop only gets appended to `X-Forwarded-For` during the last stages of proxying, that is after it has already passed through rate-limiting.
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Therefore, during rate-limiting, as the previous network hop is not yet present in `X-Forwarded-For`, it cannot be found and/or relied upon.
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### `sourceCriterion.ipStrategy.ipv6Subnet`
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This strategy applies to `Depth` and `RemoteAddr` strategy only.
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If `ipv6Subnet` is provided and the selected IP is IPv6, the IP is transformed into the first IP of the subnet it belongs to.
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This is useful for grouping IPv6 addresses into subnets to prevent bypassing this middleware by obtaining a new IPv6.
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- `ipv6Subnet` is ignored if its value is outside of 0-128 interval
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#### Example of ipv6Subnet
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If `ipv6Subnet` is provided, the IP is transformed in the following way.
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| `IP` | `ipv6Subnet` | clientIP |
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|---------------------------|--------------|-----------------------|
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| `"::abcd:1111:2222:3333"` | `64` | `"::0:0:0:0"` |
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| `"::abcd:1111:2222:3333"` | `80` | `"::abcd:0:0:0:0"` |
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| `"::abcd:1111:2222:3333"` | `96` | `"::abcd:1111:0:0:0"` |
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### sourceCriterion.ipStrategy.depth
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If `depth` is set to 2, and the request `X-Forwarded-For` header is `"10.0.0.1,11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1,13.0.0.1"` then the "real" client IP is `"10.0.0.1"` (at depth 4) but the IP used as the criterion is `"12.0.0.1"` (`depth=2`).
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| `X-Forwarded-For` | `depth` | clientIP |
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|-----------------------------------------|---------|--------------|
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| `"10.0.0.1,11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1,13.0.0.1"` | `1` | `"13.0.0.1"` |
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| `"10.0.0.1,11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1,13.0.0.1"` | `3` | `"11.0.0.1"` |
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| `"10.0.0.1,11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1,13.0.0.1"` | `5` | `""` |
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### sourceCriterion.ipStrategy.excludedIPs
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Contrary to what the name might suggest, this option is *not* about excluding an IP from the rate limiter, and therefore cannot be used to deactivate rate limiting for some IPs.
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`excludedIPs` is meant to address two classes of somewhat distinct use-cases:
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1. Distinguish IPs which are behind the same (set of) reverse-proxies so that each of them contributes, independently to the others, to its own rate-limit "bucket" (cf the [token bucket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_bucket)).
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In this case, `excludedIPs` should be set to match the list of `X-Forwarded-For IPs` that are to be excluded, in order to find the actual clientIP.
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Example to use each IP as a distinct source:
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| X-Forwarded-For | excludedIPs | clientIP |
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|--------------------------------|-----------------------|--------------|
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| `"10.0.0.1,11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1"` | `"11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1"` | `"10.0.0.1"` |
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| `"10.0.0.2,11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1"` | `"11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1"` | `"10.0.0.2"` |
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2. Group together a set of IPs (also behind a common set of reverse-proxies) so that they are considered the same source, and all contribute to the same rate-limit bucket.
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Example to group IPs together as same source:
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| X-Forwarded-For | excludedIPs | clientIP |
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|--------------------------------|--------------|--------------|
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| `"10.0.0.1,11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1"` | `"12.0.0.1"` | `"11.0.0.1"` |
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| `"10.0.0.2,11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1"` | `"12.0.0.1"` | `"11.0.0.1"` |
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| `"10.0.0.3,11.0.0.1,12.0.0.1"` | `"12.0.0.1"` | `"11.0.0.1"` |
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