Envoy Proxy · Rate Limits

Envoy Proxy Rate Limits

Envoy Proxy is self-hosted open-source software, so there is no upstream "service" rate limit to publish. Envoy itself implements rate limiting as a feature (local and global rate-limit filters, the gRPC Rate Limit Service), and the operator chooses the limits they want to enforce on their own traffic. The numbers below are not platform-imposed quotas; they describe Envoy's own rate-limit machinery and the response codes it emits when configured.

Envoy Proxy Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Envoy Proxy on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies and tokens_per_second.

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

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Gateways, Proxies, Service Mesh, and Open Source.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingGatewaysProxiesService MeshOpen Source

Limits

Operator-configured global rate limit descriptor
varies
operator-defined via Rate Limit Service descriptors
Operator-configured local rate limit route/cluster
tokens_per_second
operator-defined via token-bucket fill_interval and max_tokens

Policies

Token bucket
Envoy's local rate limiter uses a token-bucket algorithm; operators specify max_tokens, tokens_per_fill, and fill_interval per route or cluster.
Global rate limiting via RLS
Global limits are enforced by an external gRPC Rate Limit Service; Envoy sends descriptors and the RLS returns OVER_LIMIT or OK.
Status override
The HTTP status returned on throttle is configurable (defaults to 429); operators may also enforce a 503 envoy_rate_limited response on the local filter.

Sources

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