Microsoft Intune · Rate Limits

Microsoft Intune Rate Limits

Microsoft Intune is administered via the Microsoft Graph deviceManagement endpoints; throttling is governed by the underlying Microsoft Graph Identity & Access (directory) service throttling and the global Graph ceiling, plus device-check-in fan-out limits enforced by the Intune service. Microsoft does not publish per-second numbers for the deviceManagement / device-check-in endpoints; clients should treat fair-use behaviour and honour Retry-After.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_10_seconds, resource_units_per_10_seconds, requests_per_2m30s, and varies.

Limit state is signalled in the retryAfter, requestId, throttleScope, and throttleLimit response headers, and 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 5 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Endpoint Management, Intune, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft.

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

Microsoft Graph global ceiling application
requests_per_10_seconds · second
130000
Identity & Access (read) per app/tenant app/tenant
resource_units_per_10_seconds
see Graph throttling-limits — varies by tenant size (3500 / 5000 / 8000 RU)
Identity & Access (write) per app/tenant app/tenant
requests_per_2m30s · second
3000
Intune deviceManagement endpoints app/tenant
varies
see Microsoft Graph throttling guidance — no Intune-specific numbers published
Device check-in fan-out tenant
varies
bounded by service capacity; high-volume bulk actions are queued

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honour Retry-After on 429 / 503; the Microsoft Graph SDK handlers do this automatically.
Use $batch for bulk
Combine related read calls in $batch envelopes; each request is throttled individually but network overhead is reduced.
Use change notifications
Subscribe to Graph change notifications for device / compliance changes rather than polling.
Plan write operations
Bulk policy assignments and device actions are queued and may take time to converge across the tenant; do not retry-storm.
Microsoft Graph Data Connect for analytics
For tenant-wide reporting, use Data Connect to bypass REST throttling.

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