Rate limit on Organizations API

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• Tier: Free, Premium, Ultimate
• Offering: GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed
• Status: Experiment

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• Introduced in GitLab 17.5 with a flag named allow_organization_creation. Disabled by default. This feature is an experiment.
• Changed in GitLab 18.4. Feature flag allow_organization_creation consolidated and renamed to organization_switching.

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[!flag] The availability of this feature is controlled by a feature flag. For more information, see the history.

Requests over the rate limit are logged into the auth.log file.

For example, if you set a limit of 400 for POST /organizations, requests to the API endpoint that exceed a rate of 400 within one minute are blocked. Access to the endpoint is restored after one minute.

You can configure the per minute rate limit per user for requests to the POST /organizations API. The default is 10.

Change the rate limit

Prerequisites:

• Administrator access.

To change the rate limit:

1. In the upper-right corner, select Admin.
2. Select Settings > Network.
3. Expand Organizations API rate limits.
4. Change the value of any rate limit. The rate limits are per minute per user. To disable a rate limit, set the value to 0.
5. Select Save changes.