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Merge pull request #2655 from splunk/mbechtold-ingest-rates-note
Token usage rate limiting note
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admin/authentication/authentication-tokens/manage-usage.rst

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When a host uses the token to send data, Infrastructure Monitoring compares the
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token limits to all hosts' cumulative resource usage that use the token. When cumulative
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resource usage exceeds the limit, Infrastructure Monitoring issues an alert and
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stops ingesting data sent by hosts using the token.
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resource usage exceeds the limit, Infrastructure Monitoring issues an alert but continues
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ingesting data for some time. If this continued ingestion causes a system overage, contact Support. See :ref:`support`.
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Because the limits for one access token don't affect limits for other access tokens,
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you can set different limits for different types of hosts. For example, set high

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