Dashboard showing Cloudflare API call frequency?
We recently bumped up against Cloudflare's global API rate limit (via Stream) and we're now focused on making code changes so this doesn't happen again. We've identified a reasonable starting point based on our best guess (switching from using Stream's /token endpoint to generating signed tokens ourselves), but I'm curious if there is a dashboard that I should be looking at to provide additional insight into these calls. I see that Dashboard > Analytics & Logs > Traffic has an API requests tab, but it looks like this includes all API requests across orange cloud services, not just Cloudflare API requests. Is there somewhere else that I should be looking?
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Nothing like that I know of. If you're Enterprise you can request that to be raised though
May be worth mentioning though, the api rate limit is per user, not per account. Multiple users can have api tokens that can be used to modify resources in the same account.
Even if you're not Enterprise it may be worth reaching out to support, you shouldn't be punished for using a paid product too much. There's some old references to it being not plan specific: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/is-the-cloudflare-api-rate-limit-per-account-or-per-zone-domain-or-per-api-token/149009/4?u=chaika
@Chaika Thanks for the clarification and this reference! We migrated to the generating signed tokens ourselves, and believe that should dramatically reduce our API call frequency.