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Comment: https://wso2.org/jira/browse/DOCUMENTATION-6644

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Subscription-level throttling tiers are also defined when managing APIs using the API Publisher portal. 

Subscription-level Throttling tiers 

The default throttling tiers are as follows:

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Advanced throttling policies are applicable on an API-level as well as on a resource-level. APIapplied when we are Publishing an API. It can be further divided into two levels according to the applicability. Those are,

  1. API-Level Throttling
  2. Resource-Level Throttling

API Level Trottling

API-level policies are defined when managing APIs using when managing APIs using the API Publisher portal , by selecting Apply per API undr Advanced Throttling policies as shown below.



This will specify the maximum throttling level for the API per miniute.


Resource-Level Throttling

An API is made up of one or more resources. Each resource handles a particular type of request and is analogous to a method (function) in a larger API. Resource-level throttling tiers are set to HTTP verbs of an API's  resources when Managing APIs using the API Publisher portal as shown below:

Advanced Throttling tiers

The default throttling tiers are as follows:

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An application is available to a consumer at different levels of service. For example, if you have infrastructure limitations in facilitating more than a certain number of requests to an application at a time, the throttling tiers can be set accordingly so that the application can have a maximum number of requests within a defined time.

Application-level Throttling tiers

The default throttling levels are are as follows:

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