Advanced Rate Limiting

Protect your applications and APIs with precision and control against malicious traffic, without affecting legitimate users.

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Advanced Rate Limiting Capabilities

Precise Protection

Count requests using keys like headers, ASN, country, IP, and fingerprints. Stop malicious traffic without blocking real users with multiple keys for precise targeting.

Granular Control

Set filters and thresholds to match your business logic. Maintain protection against new threats with custom rules for flexible security.

Unmetered Protection

Get full protection without hidden costs. Avoid surprise expenses from traffic spikes and attacks with no limits on traffic protection.

The Challenge of Modern Attack Techniques

Websites and APIs face threats from bots, scrapers, and malicious users. Traditional IP-based rate limiting falls short against distributed attacks using residential proxies.

Distributed Attacks

Attackers use distributed networks and residential IPs to bypass traditional rate limits.

Application Layer Attacks

Layer 7 DDoS and brute-force attacks can overwhelm your application resources.

API and Content Scraping

Automated tools scrape APIs and content, impacting performance and business intelligence.

Fine Targeting with Rules

Define precise rules using our expressive wirefilter language. Gain granular control over rate limiting by filtering on any request or response parameter for a nuanced security approach. Separate counting and enforcement rules to create flexible policies that can target specific attack patterns.

Configurable Request Thresholds

Set thresholds to protect websites and APIs from suspicious requests. Choose from options including specific URLs, request methods, headers, cookies, country, network fingerprints, and more. You can also use response headers and status codes, for example, you can rate limit based on the number of 4xx or 5xx error responses.

Customisable Keys

Use one or a combination of keys like headers, cookies, ASN, country, IP, and network fingerprints (TLS, HTTP/2) to customise rate limiting rules. Get accurate protection that stops malicious traffic without affecting real users through fine-grained targeting.

Advanced Features

Adaptive Thresholds

Automatically adjust rate limits based on traffic patterns and anomaly detection.

Real-time Analytics

Monitor traffic patterns and rate limit triggers with detailed, real-time dashboards.

Instant Rule Deployment

Apply new rate limiting rules instantly across our global network without delay.

Peakhour's Advanced Rate Limiting has transformed our API security. We've seen a 99% reduction in malicious traffic while maintaining seamless access for our legitimate users.

Josh Sinclair, Head of Product

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