Many global limit-req plugins

[fabrii]

Hi! I would like to know some implementation details of limit-req. I have two types of endpoints:

• Some that are public. We can only add a request limit by IP.
• Some that are private, and need a consumer API Key. In this case, we can add a request limit by consumer_name.

Actually, you can define traffic plugins at route level or globally.
I wanted to know if I can declare both traffic plugins globally. If API Key is used, then apply the consumer traffic plugin. If API key is not used, apply the IP traffic plugin. Is that possible?

Another alternatives:

• Declare the desired plugin in each route.
• Only declaring the IP traffic plugin for all routes and ignore the consumer_name one.

Thank you.

[fabrii]

Doing some tests, I found out that global plugins are always applied.

The plugins can be configured in other places with this order of precedence: Consumer > Consumer Group > Route > Plugin Config > Service.

To accomplish my case, I can declare a rate limiting plugin by ip at service or route level. In addition, I can configure a rate limiting plugin by consumer_name at consumer level.