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Smart API rate limits dynamically manage how often your applications and users can make requests, ensuring stability, fairness, and reliability across all your integrations. By intelligently tracking usage and adapting to real-time conditions, smart rate limits protect your systems from overload and help you deliver a seamless experience.
Smart API rate limits are essential for anyone relying on real-time or high-volume data syncs. By letting you define granular, per-app limits, Stacksync ensures your integrations are both robust and cost-efficient. You get a peace of mind knowing your syncs won’t be interrupted by quota overruns, and your data will always be as fresh as your limits allow. Stacksync’s approach favoring smaller, frequent windows over large hourly or daily quotas ensures continuous, predictable syncing and avoids long delays if credits run out early in a period.
What are smart API rate limits in Stacksync and why are they important?
Smart API rate limits in Stacksync allow you to control how many API requests are made to your connected apps within specific time windows. This prevents exceeding third-party service limits, avoids costly overages, and ensures stable, reliable data synchronization even during peak usage periods.
How do I configure API rate limits for my apps in Stacksync?
To set API rate limits in Stacksync, open your sync, select the app you want to manage, and define the maximum number of requests allowed per second or minute. Stacksync recommends using smaller time scales (seconds or minutes) for rate limits to maintain steady, real-time sync performance and avoid long delays between syncs.
What are the best practices for setting API rate limits in Stacksync?
Best practices include:
How does Stacksync optimize API usage and prevent rate limit exceedance?
Stacksync batches data modifications and only makes API calls when actual data changes occur, minimizing unnecessary requests. During high-volume updates, Stacksync automatically scales its workers and parallelizes sync processes to maximize throughput without breaching rate limits. If your API credits are exhausted within a window, syncing resumes automatically when credits become available, no data is lost, only delayed.
Can I share API rate limits across multiple integrations in Stacksync?
Yes, Stacksync lets you manage rate limits for each app, making it easy to allocate API resources when multiple services or integrations are connected to the same app. This ensures fair usage and helps prevent disruptions caused by other tools consuming the same API quota.
