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: LinearB
providerId: linearb
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: true
tags:
- Engineering Analytics
- SEI
- Developer Productivity
- DORA Metrics
- DevOps
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The LinearB public REST API enforces a per-endpoint rate limit of a maximum
  of 60 calls per minute for each specific endpoint. Requests beyond the limit
  are throttled. Limits apply per API token across the deployments, incidents,
  measurements, teams, and services endpoints.
notes: >-
  Per-endpoint limit confirmed from the LinearB API overview documentation;
  verify any plan-specific overrides during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://docs.linearb.io/api-overview/
- https://docs.linearb.io/api-troubleshooting/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Per-Endpoint Calls Per Minute
  scope: endpoint
  metric: requests
  limit: 60
  notes: A maximum of 60 calls per minute for each specific endpoint, per API token.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After when receiving 429 responses.
- name: Per-Endpoint Scope
  description: The 60 calls-per-minute limit is applied independently to each specific endpoint rather than globally across all endpoints.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com