Limit connections to endpoint

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Thursday 17 July 2014 05:34:19 vocativus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a situation: opening an endpoint under location: /api/info uses a lot
> of resources. If ~20 people open it, the service goes down. For a several
> months it is impossible to improve 'info' to not kill the servce, so I have
> to "repair" it in other way.
> 
> It would be perfect if in nginx could limit connections to ~10
> requests/seconf, from all IP to this specific endpoint. Is it possible?
> 

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html

  wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev