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title: "Setting API Rate Limits | DreamFactory"
description: "How to add rate limits in DreamFactory so a single consumer cannot exhaust a shared database. Covers where limits are configured and how they apply across…"
url: "https://www.dreamfactory.com/videos/api-rate-limits"
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# Setting API Rate Limits

Tutorial·27 March 2017·5 min 5 sec

How to add rate limits in DreamFactory so a single consumer cannot exhaust a shared database. Covers where limits are configured and how they apply across users, roles, and endpoints.

**Recorded in 2017.** The concepts still apply, but the interface shown predates the current DreamFactory release. Some steps may differ in the current release.

## What you’ll learn

* Where API limits are configured in DreamFactory
* Applying limits by user, role, or endpoint
* Protecting a shared database from a single noisy consumer

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzIuQ7F44Vs