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Rate limit the flow of events

Serverless

Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

The rate_limit processor limits the throughput of events based on the specified configuration.

In the current implementation, rate-limited events are dropped. Future implementations may allow rate-limited events to be handled differently.

YAML
processors:
- rate_limit:
   limit: "10000/m"
YAML
processors:
- rate_limit:
   fields:
   - "cloudfoundry.org.name"
   limit: "400/s"
YAML
processors:
- if.equals.cloudfoundry.org.name: "acme"
  then:
  - rate_limit:
      limit: "500/s"

The following settings are supported:

limit
The rate limit. Supported time units for the rate are s (per second), m (per minute), and h (per hour).
fields

(Optional) List of fields. The rate limit will be applied to each distinct value derived by combining the values of these fields.