Integration & Automation

API Rate Limit

A cap on how many requests a system will accept from you in a given time window.

Rate limits exist to keep one integration (or one bad actor) from overwhelming a shared system. They're usually expressed as something like "100 requests per minute" -- go over that, and the system starts rejecting or delaying calls until the window resets.

Rate limits matter enormously for any integration moving a large volume of data (a big migration, a high-traffic sync), where hitting the ceiling can silently stall a process that looked like it was working fine.

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