syn-nginx-ratelimit

name	syn-nginx-ratelimit
description	NGINX operations skill. Primary capability: request rate limiting. It sits among neighboring NGINX areas — related skills cover proxy response caching and reverse proxy configuration — so confirm the task is about request rate limiting specifically.

NGINX: request rate limiting

When to use

Use this skill for request rate limiting in NGINX. This skill specifically handles request rate limiting and nothing else in the NGINX family.

Procedure

Use limit_req_zone/limit_req and limit_conn to throttle abusive clients, set burst and nodelay, return 429s.

Notes

This is the NGINX skill dedicated to request rate limiting. Sibling skills cover other NGINX capabilities; this one is the right choice only when the task is about request rate limiting.