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feat(ratelimit): enforce limits across replicas sharing a database - #1339
Rate limits (requests, tokens, concurrency) now hold across all replicas sharing a database. Before, each replica admitted up to the full limit, so N replicas allowed about N times the limit.
Each writer's snapshot rows now hold only what that writer counted itself, never counts it loaded from others. The cluster count for a key is the sum of its rows with a matching epoch, each rolled forward to now. This replaces the max-merge restore. A restarted instance's earlier rows count as one more writer's, so each generation is counted once however many restarts there are. The legacy empty-writer row is one total, so it is summed like the others.
The limiter keeps a remote view per key: the other writers' summed counters, plus their live in-flight gauges. Admission, status, x-ratelimit-* headers, /v1/usage, and the routing probe all check local + remote. The remote view is refreshed on the flush loop (save, then load) and seeded from the load at Start. The request path never calls the database, and admission adds no allocations (perf guard passes).
The guarantee is approximate. A replica's counts reach its peers within about two flush intervals (one to save, one for peers to load), so the cluster can overshoot by about that much of the other replicas' traffic, plus requests admitted on several replicas at the same instant. The docs say so and point to sticky routing or a single replica for strict caps such as concurrent=1. A strict per-request mode is left for a follow-up.
Load cost: a flush writes only the counters that changed since the last flush (rows that didn't change keep their counts and still prune correctly after two periods). It reads only rows with updated_at at or after the previous load minus a 10s overlap, which covers slow commits and clock skew. Rows are merged into a cache keyed by row identity, with a full reload once a minute as a backstop. A new updated_at index serves this on SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Rows from dead writers stay cached until their windows roll out. A reset or epoch change clears local and remote counts for the key on every replica, and cached rows of the old epoch are skipped.
Concurrency: each writer publishes its in-flight count per key on every flush (new in_flight column/field), and publishes 0 once when the count drops. Peers count a row only while it is fresh: saved within max(3 × flush interval, 5s) by the reader's clock, so replica clocks should be NTP-synced. A crashed replica's slots therefore free within that bound. Stores keep in-flight rows for a day, so pruning never races the heartbeat. In-flight gauges ignore the epoch, matching how a local reset leaves them alone.
No new setting. RATE_LIMITS_FLUSH_INTERVAL sets the sharing cadence, and 0 means counts load at start only. A single instance behaves as before, except that after a crash (not a clean shutdown), a restart within ~5s sees the crashed run's last published in-flight slots until they go stale.
Tests: two-replica shared limit (requests, tokens, headers, routing probe), restart across four generations without inflation, reset and mode change clearing peer counts on every replica, peer in-flight counting and expiry on an injected clock, incremental load / full reload / roll-out eviction, failed-save retry, and the shared store suite (since filter, save stamps, in-flight round trip and retention) on SQLite, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Mutation-checked: 15 targeted mutations, all caught. make test-race, lint, go fix, the hot-path perf guard and mint validate pass.
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New Features
Rate limits now share request, token, and concurrency counts across replicas using the shared database. Enforcement uses the latest loaded counts, so coordination is approximate and limits may briefly overshoot.
Shared counts persist across restarts. Concurrency slots from crashed replicas expire; synchronizing replica clocks helps keep shared concurrency limits accurate.
Documentation
Clarified how replicas share counts, how often they synchronize, and that setting the flush interval to zero stops ongoing sharing.
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docs/features/rate-limits.mdx
internal/ratelimit/peers_test.go
internal/ratelimit/service.go
internal/ratelimit/service_test.go
internal/ratelimit/store.go
internal/ratelimit/store_counters_test.go
internal/ratelimit/store_mongodb.go
internal/ratelimit/store_sql.go
Walkthrough
Rate-limit instances now save their own counter changes and load counter rows from other writers. Admission and reporting combine local counts with loaded peer counts. SQL and MongoDB stores support incremental loads and in-flight gauges, with updated retention behavior.
Changes: Shared rate-limit coordination
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Counter snapshots and combined limiter accounting internal/ratelimit/limiter.go, internal/ratelimit/snapshot.go, internal/ratelimit/types.go, internal/ratelimit/persist_test.go
Snapshots track changed request and token counters and in-flight gauges. The limiter combines local and remote counts for admission and reporting. Tests cover snapshot publication, peer sums, and counter-window rollover.
Peer loading and persistence lifecycle internal/ratelimit/peers.go, internal/ratelimit/persist.go, internal/ratelimit/service.go, internal/ratelimit/peers_test.go, internal/ratelimit/persist_writers_test.go
The service saves its own changed rows and loads peer rows. The peer view caches and aggregates rows, applies epoch and liveness checks, and installs remote counts. Tests cover replica coordination, incremental and full loads, failures, resets, and restart behavior.
Store contract, timestamps, and retention internal/ratelimit/store.go, internal/ratelimit/store_sql.go, internal/ratelimit/store_mongodb.go, internal/ratelimit/store_mongodb_migrate.go, internal/ratelimit/*store*_test.go, internal/ratelimit/service_test.go, internal/admin/handler_ratelimits_test.go, internal/server/ratelimit_support_test.go, tests/perf/production_shape_test.go
LoadCounters accepts a timestamp threshold. SQL and MongoDB persist update timestamps and in-flight counts, and apply distinct retention rules for window and concurrency rows. Tests and test doubles use the updated method signature.
Configuration and operational guidance config/config.example.yaml, config/ratelimit.go, docs/features/rate-limits.mdx, docs/guides/production.mdx
Comments and documentation describe counter sharing, approximate coordination, persistence and reset behavior, in-flight slot expiry, and clock synchronization.
sequenceDiagram
participant ReplicaA
participant SharedStore
participant ReplicaB
ReplicaA->>SharedStore: Save changed counters and in-flight gauges
ReplicaB->>SharedStore: Load rows updated since its last load
SharedStore-->>ReplicaB: Return writer counter rows
ReplicaB->>ReplicaB: Combine peer counts with local counts
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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 1a72b
Count sharing remains approximate as documented. Narrow edge cases can undercount usage or temporarily forget occupied concurrency slots, and sticky routing needs subject-level qualification. The remaining issues support merging with bounded owner awareness and follow-up.
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A rabbit counts the counters bright, And shares each changed nibble overnight. Peer rows join the local sum, While stale slots fade when flushes come. The rabbit hops; the limits align.
[High impact] The changes appear safe to merge, and the previous blocking issue is fixed.
Diagram
%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
A[Local counts] --> B[Save changed rows]
B --> C[Read peer rows]
C -->|Success| D[Merge rows and update read timestamps]
C -->|Failure| E[Keep cached rows and read timestamps]
D --> F[Recompute totals and expire stale slots]
E --> F
F --> G[Check local plus peer counts]
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<file name="internal/ratelimit/store_sql.go">
<violation number="1" location="internal/ratelimit/store_sql.go:292">
P2: The fixed one-day retention can delete a concurrency row before `inFlightLiveness()` expires it: the flush interval has no upper bound and liveness is three intervals. A full peer reload then releases a crashed writer's slots early (for example, a 12-hour interval yields 36-hour liveness but rows are pruned after 24 hours); cap the interval or retain rows for the configured liveness.</violation>
</file>
<file name="internal/ratelimit/persist.go">
<violation number="1" location="internal/ratelimit/persist.go:147">
P2: `SaveCounters` is also the only path that prunes expired rows, so this return leaves old writer and per-child snapshots in the database indefinitely during idle periods. Run pruning independently or periodically even when no counters changed.</violation>
</file>
<file name="internal/ratelimit/peers.go">
<violation number="1" location="internal/ratelimit/peers.go:161">
P2: Large positive flush intervals can overflow `3*s.flushInterval`, reducing peer-slot liveness to 5 seconds and allowing live concurrency slots to stop counting. Saturate the multiplication before computing the liveness bound.</violation>
</file>
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P2: The fixed one-day retention can delete a concurrency row before inFlightLiveness() expires it: the flush interval has no upper bound and liveness is three intervals. A full peer reload then releases a crashed writer's slots early (for example, a 12-hour interval yields 36-hour liveness but rows are pruned after 24 hours); cap the interval or retain rows for the configured liveness.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At internal/ratelimit/store_sql.go, line 292:
<comment>The fixed one-day retention can delete a concurrency row before `inFlightLiveness()` expires it: the flush interval has no upper bound and liveness is three intervals. A full peer reload then releases a crashed writer's slots early (for example, a 12-hour interval yields 36-hour liveness but rows are pruned after 24 hours); cap the interval or retain rows for the configured liveness.</comment>
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@@ -255,26 +269,27 @@ func (s *SQLStore) SaveCounters(ctx context.Context, snapshots []WindowSnapshot)
const pruneCountersSQL = `
DELETE FROM rate_limit_window_snapshots
- WHERE updated_at + 2 * period_seconds < ?
+ WHERE updated_at + CASE WHEN period_seconds = ? THEN ? ELSE 2 * period_seconds END < ?
`
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Not changing this. A live writer rewrites each nonzero in-flight row on every flush, so with any interval under a day its row is never pruned: in the 12-hour example it is rewritten every 12 hours. Only a stopped writer's row reaches the one-day retention, and freeing a stopped writer's slots early is the intended outcome. A live row could only be pruned between its own flushes with an interval over 24 hours, where sharing counts is moot anyway.
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P2: SaveCounters is also the only path that prunes expired rows, so this return leaves old writer and per-child snapshots in the database indefinitely during idle periods. Run pruning independently or periodically even when no counters changed.
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<comment>`SaveCounters` is also the only path that prunes expired rows, so this return leaves old writer and per-child snapshots in the database indefinitely during idle periods. Run pruning independently or periodically even when no counters changed.</comment>
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@@ -107,27 +115,45 @@ func (s *Service) startFlushLoop() {
s.persistMu.Lock()
defer s.persistMu.Unlock()
snapshots := s.limiter.snapshot(s.Rules())
+ if len(snapshots) == 0 {
+ return
+ }
</file context>
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Not changing this. Pruning is skipped only while this writer has nothing to save, and while idle no new rows are written (Close writes nothing when nothing changed), so nothing accumulates. The first non-empty save from any replica prunes. Stale rows do not affect admission: the peer view skips other epochs and drops rolled-out windows and stale in-flight rows. The early return deliberately avoids the per-second DELETE every replica issued on main.
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P2: Large positive flush intervals can overflow 3*s.flushInterval, reducing peer-slot liveness to 5 seconds and allowing live concurrency slots to stop counting. Saturate the multiplication before computing the liveness bound.
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<comment>Large positive flush intervals can overflow `3*s.flushInterval`, reducing peer-slot liveness to 5 seconds and allowing live concurrency slots to stop counting. Saturate the multiplication before computing the liveness bound.</comment>
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@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+ if s.flushInterval <= 0 {
+ return 0
+ }
+ return max(3*s.flushInterval, minInFlightLiveness)
+}
+
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Not changing this. flushIntervalFromSeconds keeps the interval positive, and 3*interval only overflows above about 3.07e9 seconds (about 97 years), where the flush loop effectively never runs. Not reachable with a meaningful configuration, and we are not adding an interval cap in this PR.
Add a test that runs the flush ticker across two services.
The replica helper in peers_test.go sets flushInterval after Start, so the multi-replica tests never run the ticker. They call flush directly. A ticker that stops calling loadPeers passes this suite. Add a test with a nonzero WithFlushInterval that asserts peer counts appear without a manual flush.
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Review comment at @internal/ratelimit/peers_test.go around lines 63 - 72:
Add a multi-service test in peers_test.go that configures a nonzero
WithFlushInterval before Start and verifies peer counts appear without calling
flush directly. Update the replica helper or create a dedicated setup so the
ticker uses that interval when started, and assert the expected peer counts
across both services.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/features/rate-limits.mdx:
- Around line 277-279: Update the `concurrent=1` guidance to remove
client-sticky routing as a mitigation; state that the strict cap requires a
single replica or routing every request sharing the rule’s subject to the same
replica.
Review comments at @internal/ratelimit/limiter.go:
- Around line 53-55: Update the window-folding logic in the function containing
this `w.windowStart > start` branch so it preserves the peer row’s next-window
counts when that fold is read again after the boundary without a reload. Ensure
the folded `windowCounter` carries the counts needed for `breach` to block
requests correctly, while preserving the existing handling of `w.current` and
`w.previous`.
Review comments at @internal/ratelimit/peers.go:
- Around line 98-110: Update SQLStore.resetCounters and
MongoDBStore.resetCounters to exclude PeriodConcurrent rows from reset deletion,
matching the behavior of limiter.reset. Preserve in-flight rows for live
requests so replicas continue counting their concurrent slots after a reset.
Review comments at @internal/ratelimit/persist.go:
- Around line 146-149: Update save so expired snapshot rows are still pruned on
idle ticks, even when no counters changed. Preserve the no-op behavior that
avoids a full SaveCounters call—and its extra DELETE—on every idle tick by using
an appropriate separate cleanup schedule or mechanism, without changing limit
calculations.
Review comments at @internal/ratelimit/service.go:
- Around line 184-186: Update Refresh to recompute peer sums with installSums
after swapping the rules and resetting affected counters, so the new rules
immediately include peer totals even when flush_interval is zero.
Review comments at @internal/ratelimit/store.go:
- Around line 12-15: Update inFlightRowRetention and Service.inFlightLiveness so
pruning cannot remove an in-flight row while peers still count it: derive
retention from the liveness window or enforce a flush-interval limit that keeps
the window within the one-day retention period. Preserve the existing admission
limits and choose the smallest change consistent with how these values are
configured.
---
Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @internal/ratelimit/peers_test.go:
- Around line 63-72: Add a multi-service test in peers_test.go that configures a
nonzero WithFlushInterval before Start and verifies peer counts appear without
calling flush directly. Update the replica helper or create a dedicated setup so
the ticker uses that interval when started, and assert the expected peer counts
across both services.
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config/config.example.yaml
config/ratelimit.go
docs/features/rate-limits.mdx
docs/guides/production.mdx
internal/admin/handler_ratelimits_test.go
internal/ratelimit/limiter.go
internal/ratelimit/peers.go
internal/ratelimit/peers_test.go
internal/ratelimit/persist.go
internal/ratelimit/persist_test.go
internal/ratelimit/persist_writers_test.go
internal/ratelimit/service.go
internal/ratelimit/service_test.go
internal/ratelimit/snapshot.go
internal/ratelimit/store.go
internal/ratelimit/store_counters_test.go
internal/ratelimit/store_epoch_test.go
internal/ratelimit/store_mongodb.go
internal/ratelimit/store_mongodb_migrate.go
internal/ratelimit/store_mongodb_test.go
internal/ratelimit/store_sql.go
internal/ratelimit/store_sql_test.go
internal/ratelimit/types.go
internal/server/ratelimit_support_test.go
tests/perf/production_shape_test.go
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Description
x-ratelimit-*headers,/v1/usage, and the routing probe all check local + remote. The remote view is refreshed on the flush loop (save, then load) and seeded from the load at Start. The request path never calls the database, and admission adds no allocations (perf guard passes).concurrent=1. A strict per-request mode is left for a follow-up.updated_atat or after the previous load minus a 10s overlap, which covers slow commits and clock skew. Rows are merged into a cache keyed by row identity, with a full reload once a minute as a backstop. A newupdated_atindex serves this on SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Rows from dead writers stay cached until their windows roll out. A reset or epoch change clears local and remote counts for the key on every replica, and cached rows of the old epoch are skipped.in_flightcolumn/field), and publishes 0 once when the count drops. Peers count a row only while it is fresh: saved within max(3 × flush interval, 5s) by the reader's clock, so replica clocks should be NTP-synced. A crashed replica's slots therefore free within that bound. Stores keep in-flight rows for a day, so pruning never races the heartbeat. In-flight gauges ignore the epoch, matching how a local reset leaves them alone.RATE_LIMITS_FLUSH_INTERVALsets the sharing cadence, and0means counts load at start only. A single instance behaves as before, except that after a crash (not a clean shutdown), a restart within ~5s sees the crashed run's last published in-flight slots until they go stale.rate_limit_window_snapshots, the unreleased table from fix(ratelimit): keep per-replica counter snapshots so replicas stop overwriting each other #1296, plus an index. v0.2.0 never reads that table, so rolling upgrades are unaffected.Tests: two-replica shared limit (requests, tokens, headers, routing probe), restart across four generations without inflation, reset and mode change clearing peer counts on every replica, peer in-flight counting and expiry on an injected clock, incremental load / full reload / roll-out eviction, failed-save retry, and the shared store suite (since filter, save stamps, in-flight round trip and retention) on SQLite, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Mutation-checked: 15 targeted mutations, all caught.
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