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| author | Mayra Cabrera <mcabrera@gitlab.com> | 2019-08-12 09:31:28 -0500 |
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| committer | Mayra Cabrera <mcabrera@gitlab.com> | 2019-08-14 08:31:57 -0500 |
| commit | ca89f9bf9686cefcda5338183d98aff3a81098d9 (patch) | |
| tree | f518f055f971bcf28e87c9b2445b751e9cac8b15 | |
| parent | e57cec33b55e3b886e45e7b2ddd98cd068ee879c (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-add-rate-limiter-on-raw-endpoint-docs.tar.gz | |
Add docs for rate limiter on raw endpointsadd-rate-limiter-on-raw-endpoint-docs
The section was included on security/raw_limits and on the admin area
settings.
Related to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/48717
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/admin_area/settings/rate_limits_on_raw_endpoints.md | 20 |
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/security/rate_limits.md b/doc/security/rate_limits.md index 0e5bdcd9c79..c80f2f264b2 100644 --- a/doc/security/rate_limits.md +++ b/doc/security/rate_limits.md @@ -22,11 +22,12 @@ similarly mitigated by a rate limit. ## Admin Area settings -See -[User and IP rate limits](../user/admin_area/settings/user_and_ip_rate_limits.md). +- [User and IP rate limits](../user/admin_area/settings/user_and_ip_rate_limits.md). +- [Rate limits on raw endpoints](../user/admin_area/settings/rate_limits_on_raw_endpoints.md) ## Rack Attack initializer This method of rate limiting is cumbersome, but has some advantages. It allows throttling of specific paths, and is also integrated into Git and container registry requests. See [Rack Attack initializer](rack_attack.md). + diff --git a/doc/user/admin_area/settings/img/rate_limits_on_raw_endpoints.png b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/img/rate_limits_on_raw_endpoints.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c32eb93c8a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/img/rate_limits_on_raw_endpoints.png diff --git a/doc/user/admin_area/settings/rate_limits_on_raw_endpoints.md b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/rate_limits_on_raw_endpoints.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..01503a98af8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/rate_limits_on_raw_endpoints.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +type: reference +--- + +# Rate limits on raw endpoints + +> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/30829) in GitLab 12.2. + +This setting allows you to rate limit the requests to raw endpoints, defaults to `300` requests per minute. +It can be modified in **Admin Area > Network > Performance Optimization**. + +For example, requests over `300` per minute to `https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/raw/master/app/controllers/application_controller.rb` will be blocked. + + + +This limit is: + +- Applied independently per project, per commit and per file path. +- Not applied per IP address. +- Active by default. To disable, set the option to `0`. |
