SpikeArrest - UseEffectiveCount not working

[SunilV92]

Hi Team,

We are trying to use Spike Arrest to protects against traffic surges. Based on the below document it seems we have a flag <UseEffectiveCount> which distributes count across multiple Message Processor.

https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/reference/policies/spike-arrest-policy

We have 8 message processor running in the api proxies and have set the rate to 1pm and also have set the UseEffectiveCount to true, but it seems we are able to send 8 request in a minute , ideally we should be allowed to send only one request in one minute.

https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/reference/policies/spike-arrest-policy#useeffectivecount

Is there anything which I am missing here?

[dknezic]

Note that on Edge, useeffectivecount divides your rate across the MPs.  Your rate is too low for this to work. You may need to consider a quota policy instead