How do i implement traffic throttling, auto scaling and spike arrest for APIs

[shruti....@accionlabs.com]

I am implementing Kong API gateways where in i want to implement following features:

1. Traffic throttling (Which i have implemented using rate limiting plugin)

2. Spike arrest

3. Auto scaling to handle sudden spikes, so there is no lag

are these functionalities provided by Kong? if yes can anyone tell me how to implement those?

[Cooper Marcus]

1. It appears you are using https://getkong.org/plugins/rate-limiting/ 

2. How is this different from #1? Is https://getkong.org/plugins/rate-limiting/ not able to also perform this function?

3. Do you mean auto-scale your Kong cluster, or auto-scale your upstream services? If the former, you can use typical NGINX and infrastructure monitoring to watch for busy Kong nodes, and scale your Kong cluster when necessary. If the latter, you'd need to monitor your upstream services and scale them as necessary. 

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