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Rate and query limits in the GraphQL API for Digital Advisor

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The Digital Advisor GraphQL API has limitations in place to protect against excessive or malicious calls to Digital Advisor's servers.

Request rate limit

The GraphQL API assigns points to each query and limits the requests that you can use within a specific amount of time. This limit helps prevent abuse and denial-of-service attacks, and ensures that the API remains available for all users.

There is a limit of 300 requests in any five minute period for each originating IP address. If this limit is exceeded, the client receives a "Too Many Requests" error with the 429 status code, as shown in the following example.

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "extensions": {
        "service": "ActiveIQ_GraphQL",
        "code": "USER_API_RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
        "status": 429
      },
      "message": "User API Rate Limit Exceeded."
    }
  ]
}

Timeouts

If the GraphQL API takes more than 60 seconds to process an API request, the server terminates the request. You receive a timeout response and a message reporting that the request has timed out, as shown in the following example.

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "extensions": {
        "service": "ActiveIQ_GraphQL",
        "code": "REQUEST_TIMEOUT",
        "status": 504
      },
      "message": "The request has timed out."
    }
  ]
}