Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

Configuring request throttling using inbound policies

Perform the following steps:

1. As shown in the preceding screenshot, choose the required operation (GET) and click on the inbound policy editor link (labeled 3), which will open the policy editor.

API Management allows us to control the behavior of the backend APIs (in our case, HTTP triggers) using API Management policies. You can control both the inbound and outbound request responses. You can read more about this at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-howto-policies.

2. Since we need to restrict the request rate within API Management before sending the request to the backend function app, we need to configure the rate limit in the inbound policy. Create ...