Multiple types of rate limits on the same endpoint

[viliusgudziunas]

I want to configure two different types of rate limits on the same endpoint:

• Each consumer can make 5 requests per minute
• The endpoint itself can receive 100 requests per minute

How can I configure such rate limits with Kong?

Currently, I have a service and this endpoint is a route under that service.

I've tried adding rate-limiting plugin with limit_by: consumer on the route and another rate-limiting plugin with limit_by: path on the service. After testing, it looks like only the route rate limits take effect. If I disable the rate-limiting plugin on the route, then the service plugin starts to work.

I've also tried adding 2 rate-limiting plugins on the route and that leads to validation failures, because the plugins need to be unique.

All this leads me to believe that I am only able to configure a single type of rate limits on the same endpoint.

Maybe there is another way and I'm just not finding it?

[ms2008]

All this leads me to believe that I am only able to configure a single type of rate limits on the same endpoint.

Yes. Today, Kong by design only allows a single instance of a given plugin to execute on any given request.

To address your case, there is a workaround such as duplicating and re-implementing entire plugin definitions as custom plugins to avoid “de-duping”.