---
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: Netdata
providerId: netdata
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Monitoring
  - Observability
description: >-
  Netdata does not publicly document specific rate limits for either the Agent
  API or the Cloud API as of June 2026. The Agent API runs on individual nodes
  and inherits resource limits from the local system. The Cloud API uses Bearer
  token authentication with no stated per-token rate limits in public
  documentation. Standard HTTP 429 responses are used if throttling occurs.
sources:
  - https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/netdata-cloud/authentication-&-authorization/api-tokens
  - https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/rest-api/api
headers:
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Netdata Cloud API
    scope: key
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: Netdata Agent API
    scope: ip
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: minute