docs/en/latest/plugins/limit-count.md

title: limit-count

Summary

Name
Attributes
How To Enable
Test Plugin
Disable Plugin

Name

Limit request rate by a fixed number of requests in a given time window.

Attributes

Name	Type	Requirement	Default	Valid	Description
count	integer	required		count > 0	the specified number of requests threshold.
time_window	integer	required		time_window > 0	the time window in seconds before the request count is reset.
key	string	optional	“remote_addr”	[“remote_addr”, “server_addr”, “http_x_real_ip”, “http_x_forwarded_for”, “consumer_name”, “service_id”]	The user specified key to limit the count. Now accept those as key: “remote_addr”(client‘s IP), “server_addr”(server’s IP), “X-Forwarded-For/X-Real-IP” in request header, “consumer_name”(consumer's username) and “service_id”.
rejected_code	integer	optional	503	[200,...,599]	The HTTP status code returned when the request exceeds the threshold is rejected, default 503.
policy	string	optional	“local”	[“local”, “redis”, “redis-cluster”]	The rate-limiting policies to use for retrieving and incrementing the limits. Available values are `local`(the counters will be stored locally in-memory on the node) and `redis`(counters are stored on a Redis server and will be shared across the nodes, usually use it to do the global speed limit).
redis_host	string	required for `redis`			When using the `redis` policy, this property specifies the address of the Redis server.
redis_port	integer	optional	6379	[1,...]	When using the `redis` policy, this property specifies the port of the Redis server.
redis_password	string	optional			When using the `redis` policy, this property specifies the password of the Redis server.
redis_database	integer	optional	0	redis_database >= 0	When using the `redis` policy, this property specifies the database you selected of the Redis server, and only for non Redis cluster mode (single instance mode or Redis public cloud service that provides single entry).
redis_timeout	integer	optional	1000	[1,...]	When using the `redis` policy, this property specifies the timeout in milliseconds of any command submitted to the Redis server.
redis_cluster_nodes	array	required when policy is `redis-cluster`			When using `redis-cluster` policy，This property is a list of addresses of Redis cluster service nodes (at least two).
redis_cluster_name	string	required when policy is `redis-cluster`			When using `redis-cluster` policy, this property is the name of Redis cluster service nodes.

Key can be customized by the user, only need to modify a line of code of the plug-in to complete. It is a security consideration that is not open in the plugin.

How To Enable

Here's an example, enable the limit count plugin on the specified route:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "plugins": {
        "limit-count": {
            "count": 2,
            "time_window": 60,
            "rejected_code": 503,
            "key": "remote_addr"
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "39.97.63.215:80": 1
        }
    }
}'

You can open dashboard with a browser: http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/dashboard/, to complete the above operation through the web interface, first add a route:

Then add limit-count plugin: Add limit-count plugin.

If you need a cluster-level precision traffic limit, then we can do it with the redis server. The rate limit of the traffic will be shared between different APISIX nodes to limit the rate of cluster traffic.

Here is the example if we use single redis policy:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "plugins": {
        "limit-count": {
            "count": 2,
            "time_window": 60,
            "rejected_code": 503,
            "key": "remote_addr",
            "policy": "redis",
            "redis_host": "127.0.0.1",
            "redis_port": 6379,
            "redis_password": "password",
            "redis_database": 1,
            "redis_timeout": 1001
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "39.97.63.215:80": 1
        }
    }
}'

If using redis-cluster policy:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "plugins": {
        "limit-count": {
            "count": 2,
            "time_window": 60,
            "rejected_code": 503,
            "key": "remote_addr",
            "policy": "redis-cluster",
            "redis_cluster_nodes": [
              "127.0.0.1:5000",
              "127.0.0.1:5001"
            ],
            "redis_password": "password",
            "redis_cluster_name": "redis-cluster-1"
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "39.97.63.215:80": 1
        }
    }
}'

Test Plugin

The above configuration limits access to only 2 times in 60 seconds. The first two visits will be normally:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/index.html

The response header contains X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining, which mean the total number of requests and the remaining number of requests that can be sent:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 13175
Connection: keep-alive
X-RateLimit-Limit: 2
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0
Server: APISIX web server

When you visit for the third time, you will receive a response with the 503 HTTP code:

HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 194
Connection: keep-alive
Server: APISIX web server

<html>
<head><title>503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</h1></center>
<hr><center>openresty</center>
</body>
</html>

This means that the limit count plugin is in effect.

Disable Plugin

When you want to disable the limit count plugin, it is very simple, you can delete the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration, no need to restart the service, it will take effect immediately:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "39.97.63.215:80": 1
        }
    }
}'

The limit count plugin has been disabled now. It works for other plugins.