--- title: "Built-In Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API" url: https://daily.dev/posts/built-in-rate-limiting-in-asp-net-core-web-api-hq6qrt4xc source_url: https://code-maze.com/aspnetcore-webapi-rate-limiting/ type: article source: "Code Maze" published: 2024-04-22T06:31:23.054Z updated: 2024-05-09T09:09:48.658Z tags: ["security", "aspnetcore"] reading_time: 12 upvotes: 16 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Built-In Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API **[Code Maze](https://daily.dev/sources/codemaze)** · 12 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary This post discusses rate limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API, including its importance in online systems and its implementation using built-in middleware. It covers different rate-limiting strategies such as fixed window limiter, sliding window limiter, token bucket limiter, and concurrency limiter. It also explores how rate limiting can be enabled or disabled for specific controllers or actions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@lezli01** · 0 upvotes > This is useful, but most of the times I won't let my .Net server face front the outside world, it is usually behind some reverse proxy which already does the rate limitation (for e.g.: nginx) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#aspnetcore](https://daily.dev/tags/aspnetcore) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/built-in-rate-limiting-in-asp-net-core-web-api-hq6qrt4xc)