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| Property | Description | ||
Quota | Specifies the number of request messages that an application is allowed to submit to an API per hour/day/week/month. | ||
| Quota Identifier | For the Quota policy to work, each application requires a unique identifier to be presented with each request. The identifier can be customized. It can be any HTTP header, query parameter, form parameter, or message content that is unique to each consumer application. | ||
| Weight | Assignsweightto specific messages to increase/decrease the impact of request messages over other messages. For example, it can consider POST messages twice as "heavy" or expensive asGETmessages. | ||
| Distributed option | This option is used to fetch data from the distributed database (Cassandra). If disabled, it fetches data from the cache memory in the local machine. | ||
Synchronous
| Specifies that the remaining quota value gets updated after every call. This option is suggested when the quota value is a hard limit to number of calls that can be made. The Synchronous option gets enabled when the Distributed option is enabled.
Synchronous option enabled specifies that the remaining quota value gets updated after every call. This option is suggested when the quota value is a hard limit tonumber of calls that can be made. | Re-sync Interval | . |
| Re-sync Interval | Specifies the time that the system waits for before rechecking the availability of quota for the user. The Re-sync Interval option gets enabled when the Synchronous option is disabled.
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Advanced
This is the default option, which allows to configure all the properties described in the above table.
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