Lightstep · Rate Limits

Lightstep Rate Limits

Lightstep API rate limits per organization.

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

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute and spans_per_second.

An exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and Observability.

2 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-04.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Rate LimitingObservability

Limits

Public API org
requests_per_minute · minute
600
Span ingest project
spans_per_second
scales with plan

Sources

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Tools for rate limits

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  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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