Quota management - Throttled requests counting towards monthly plan?

[hashim]

Hi. So there are two ways to throttle requests: SpikeArrests and Quota policy. 

Do throttled requests count when calculating the total number of requests for the Apigee business plan? 

For instance, if Apigee gave us a limit of 10M requests per month and our API got 15M, out of which 7M were throttled (leaving behind 8M, which is below 10M), will we be billed for 15M or 8M?

[dknezic · Accepted solution]

All requests will count. Requests that are rejected due to Spike Arrest or Quota are still processed by Apigee.

[dknezic · Accepted solution]

All requests will count. Requests that are rejected due to Spike Arrest or Quota are still processed by Apigee.

[dchiesa1 · Accepted solution]

Yes.

By my way of thinking about it, that's why you pay for Apigee. Throttling or rate limiting is one of the key features of Apigee. It wouldn't make sense for such calls to "not count". Similarly it wouldn't make sense to "not count" calls that Apigee rejects because they have a fake or contrived OAuth token,  Or to not count calls that have an expired JWT. Or to not count calls for which Apigee serves a response from cache. Those situations are examples of Apigee serving its intended purpose.