The rate limit protects the API only by risking legitimate traffic.
The edge must contain an active abuse pattern while the customer’s valid API calls keep moving.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My developers are paging me because real calls are getting blocked, and I can’t just turn the protection off.”
Raluca Todorovic · Network Security Administrator
Owns protection and availability for a distributed organization whose production API is behind the affected rate-limiting rule.
What is at stake
Valid API requests are being rate-limited in several regions while an active abuse pattern uses similar request attributes. You must weigh customer availability against retaining protection before approving a hard-to-reverse edge change.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- valid API availability vs active abuse containment
- regional relief vs consistent edge enforcement
- fast mitigation vs verified rule classification
- rollback safety vs protection continuity
Why Cloudflare
Rate Limiting and the rules engine sit directly on the edge path used to protect customer applications at global scale.
Written with these in mind
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