generated: '2026-08-19'
method: searched
source: https://community.cisco.com/t5/general-networking/dnac-catalyst-center-api-limits/td-p/5103522
note: 'Cisco publishes NO rate-limit page in the Catalyst Center API reference — developer.cisco.com/docs/catalyst-center/rate-limits/
  and /rate-limiting/ both return 404 (probed 2026-08-19). The single documented figure below comes from Cisco Community,
  and is corroborated by the first-party Python SDK exposing CATALYST_CENTER_WAIT_ON_RATE_LIMIT (default True) for automatic
  rate-limit handling. Confidence is low: no Cisco reference page states it, and no response headers are documented, so
  an agent has no runtime signal at all and must infer throttling from a bare 429.'
limit_count: 1
limits:
- scope: per-controller
  window: 1 minute
  limit: 100
  burst: null
  varies_by_endpoint: documented as adjustable per endpoint, ranging roughly 20-500
  confidence: low
  source: https://community.cisco.com/t5/general-networking/dnac-catalyst-center-api-limits/td-p/5103522
response_headers: []
response_headers_note: No RateLimit-*, X-RateLimit-* or Retry-After headers are documented, and none appear in any of the
  185 published OpenAPI operations.
status_on_exhaustion: 429
status_declared_in_spec: false
client_handling:
- client: catalystcentersdk (Python)
  setting: CATALYST_CENTER_WAIT_ON_RATE_LIMIT
  default: true
  source: https://catalystcentersdk.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/quickstart.html
probed:
- url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/catalyst-center/rate-limits/
  status: 404
- url: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/catalyst-center/rate-limiting/
  status: 404