Azure APIM throttle back

Question

Hi All,

I would like to know whether Azure API Management has the ability to throttle back rather than deny a request at the gateway. Something like this:

• Zero thru X call per minute – no throttle
• X thru Y calls per minute – queue or delay before routing to the back-end
• Y or above call per minute – respond with error

Thanks,
SuvraJyoti

Answer 1

@suvra jyoti There is no built-in way to achieve this using APIM. It would be best to implement this in your backend.

You could leverage features like error handling to handle requests after the initial rate limit differently like forwarding the request to another service that could queue the request and return a URL that can be used to track. This too would require building such a service though.