Chronosphere · Rate Limits

Chronosphere Rate Limits

Chronosphere publishes throttling BEHAVIOUR in detail and throttling NUMBERS not at all. The limits are per-tenant and derived from the customer's contracted capacity, so the docs describe the meter, the trigger and the consequence precisely while the value of every limit lives in the contract and in an in-product dashboard. There are no published numeric thresholds to record and no rate-limit response headers at all.

Chronosphere Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Chronosphere on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring PromQL selectors evaluated per second, READS = sum(DATAPOINTS_RETURNED_FOR_SERIES), minimum 60 data points per series, total compute resources available for log queries, and percentage of total available query resources.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and retryAfter response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and detail.

Tagged areas include AIOps, Observability, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

5 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 limitremainingresetretryAfter
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-29 — docs.chronosphere.io/administer/limits-licensing/limits, ....
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AIOpsObservabilityRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Selectors per second per-tenant
PromQL selectors evaluated per second · per Sustained. Chronosphere does not begin dropping until the limit is exceeded for 10 consecutive minutes, which deliberately tolerates spikes.
contract-derived/Sustained. Chronosphere does not begin dropping until the limit is exceeded for 10 consecutive minutes, which deliberately tolerates spikes.
Data reads per second per-tenant
READS = sum(DATAPOINTS_RETURNED_FOR_SERIES), minimum 60 data points per series · per sustained; same 10-minute grace before dropping
contract-derived/sustained; same 10-minute grace before dropping
Log global query limit per-tenant
total compute resources available for log queries
contract-derived
Log user query limit per-user
percentage of total available query resources
contract-derived
Log API query limit per-api-caller
percentage of total available query resources
contract-derived
The only limit explicitly scoped to API traffic. Its share of total capacity is not published, so an integrator cannot size a workload in advance.

Policies

Grace window
Neither query limit begins dropping until it has been exceeded for 10 consecutive minutes.
Drop, not queue (metrics queries)
Metrics query overload sheds an indiscriminate subset of queries. A client cannot assume its own request will survive, and cannot tell a dropped query from a failed one without the 429.
Queue, not drop (log queries)
Log queries exceeding the global limit are queued and run when resources free up.

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