specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Acuity Brands
providerId: acuity-brands
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-05'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - Lighting
  - B2B
  - Inventory
  - Order Management
  - Rate Limiting
description: Acuity Brands does not publish public rate-limit numbers for its distributor / partner API.
  Limits are configured per integration partner during onboarding, with throttling applied at the API
  gateway and 429 surfaced to clients exceeding their allocation.
sources:
  - https://api-docs.acuitybrands.com/
notes: No public rate-limit documentation. Reconciled flag is false because no provider-published numbers
  exist; partner-specific values are issued through Acuity Brands integration support.
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits: []
policies:
  - name: Partner Onboarding
    description: Per-partner throttling and concurrency are negotiated as part of API onboarding.
  - name: Backoff
    description: Standard guidance for 429 — exponential backoff with jitter, honor Retry-After if present.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com