fastly rate-limit create
Create a rate limiter for a particular service and version.
Syntax
$ fastly rate-limit create --version=VERSIONOptions
| Key | Required? | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--version | Yes | 'latest', 'active', or the number of a specific Fastly service version | |
--action | No | The action to take when a rate limiter violation is detected | |
--autoclone | No | If the selected service version is not editable, clone it and use the clone. | |
--client-key | No | Comma-separated list of VCL variable used to generate a counter key to identify a client | |
--feature-revision | No | Revision number of the rate limiting feature implementation | |
--http-methods | No | Comma-separated list of HTTP methods to apply rate limiting to | |
--json | No | Render output as JSON | |
--logger-type | No | Name of the type of logging endpoint to be used when action is `log_only` | |
--name | No | A human readable name for the rate limiting rule | |
--penalty-box-dur | No | Length of time in minutes that the rate limiter is in effect after the initial violation is detected | |
--response-content | No | HTTP response body data | |
--response-content-type | No | HTTP Content-Type (e.g. application/json) | |
--response-object-name | No | Name of existing response object. Required if action is response_object | |
--response-status | No | HTTP response status code (e.g. 429) | |
--rps-limit | No | Upper limit of requests per second allowed by the rate limiter | |
--service-id | No | Service ID (falls back to FASTLY_SERVICE_ID, then fastly.toml) | |
--service-name | No | The name of the service | |
--uri-dict-name | No | The name of an Edge Dictionary containing URIs as keys | |
--window-size | No | Number of seconds during which the RPS limit must be exceeded in order to trigger a violation |
Global options
| Key | Required? | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--help | No | Show context-sensitive help. | |
--accept-defaults | No | Accept default options for all interactive prompts apart from Yes/No confirmations | |
--auto-yes | No | Answer yes automatically to all Yes/No confirmations. This may suppress security warnings | |
--debug-mode | No | Print API request and response details (NOTE: can disrupt the normal CLI flow output formatting) | |
--enable-sso | No | Enable Single-Sign On (SSO) for current profile execution (see also: 'fastly sso') | |
--non-interactive | No | Do not prompt for user input - suitable for CI processes. Equivalent to --accept-defaults and --auto-yes | |
--profile | No | Switch account profile for single command execution (see also: 'fastly profile switch') | |
--quiet | No | Silence all output except direct command output. This won't prevent interactive prompts (see: --accept-defaults, --auto-yes, --non-interactive) | |
--token | No | Fastly API token (or via FASTLY_API_TOKEN) | |
--verbose | No | Verbose logging |
