Rate Limiting: Live Demo

Cloudflare has introduced a new feature called Rate Limiting, which allows customers to control their own traffic at the edge by rate limiting, shaping or blocking traffic based on various attributes of the request. This helps protect websites and APIs fromLayer 7 DOS attacks and brute-force attempts. The service leverages Cloudflare's massive network to process and enforce rate limiting near the client, shielding the customer's application from unnecessary load. Customers can create rules with different configurations such as setting thresholds, actions, timeouts, response body types, and more. An early access program is available for interested users.