A throttling condition contains the match criteria for requests that API consumers send to your APIs. You can define a condition so that it includes very coarse or granular components of your API, such as endpoints, resources, methods, or API keys associated with a selected access control group.

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API

You can also complete this task by using the API Keys and Traffic Management API. Run the Create a throttling counter operation.

1. In the Throttling conditions section, select the condition that you want to configure for this throttling counter.

2. If you selected API keys:

   a. Expand the API keys node.

   b. Select the API keys that you want to include in this throttling condition.

3. If you selected API key collections:

   a. Expand the API key collections node.

   b. Select the key collections that you want to include in this throttling condition.

4. If you selected Endpoints and resources:

   a. Expand the Endpoints and resources node.

   b. Select the endpoints and resources that you want to include in this throttling condition.

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   Select the Only Active option to display only endpoints and resources currently active on the ​Akamai​ network.

5. Click Save.

Throttling collection condition

Limitations

• You can’t use a collection with a key assigned to multiple collections in the Throttling collection condition.
• You can’t assign a key from the collection used in the Throttling collection condition to any other collection.

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You can check which collection you can use for a counter by using the API Keys and Traffic Management API. Run the List counter key collections operation.