Need to safeguard APIs against a sudden increase in traffic

Hi Team,

Need to calculate an allowable traffic rate of 500 transactions per second (TPS) What should I do?

Should I use Spike Arrest policy setting the limit to 500 TPS ?

or

Use a Quota enforcement policy set to limit throughput to 500 TPS ?

Regards,

Shailendra Singh

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@Shailendra Singh

It seems like your intention is to protect the backend from an excessively high amount of load in a short period of time aka spikes. The Spike Arrest policy is a natural fit for this situation.

You can read up on the differences here.

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@Shailendra Singh

It seems like your intention is to protect the backend from an excessively high amount of load in a short period of time aka spikes. The Spike Arrest policy is a natural fit for this situation.

You can read up on the differences here.

Thanks Cladius for responding to this question !

I was thinking on the same line to use Spike Arrest. I was bit confused between Spike Arrest and Quota policy.

Regards,

Shailendra Singh