# Auth Rate Limit

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/auth-rate-limit/708625>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** server-docker\
**Created:** [April 11, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auth-rate-limit/708625 "2021-04-11T01:21:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FordGuy61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@FordGuy61](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FordGuy61)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auth-rate-limit/708625/2 "2021-04-11T02:49:05Z")

</div>

Searched the forum for “api rate limit exceeded.” Found this thread:

> [@"API rate limit exceeded" When Getting Certificate](https://forums.plex.tv/t/api-rate-limit-exceeded-when-getting-certificate/704075/4):
>
> @MarkJH Normal rate limiting idle time required to clear throttling is that the API will remove the limit 24 hours after first triggered. So if it was first throttled at noon, and persisted for several hours, shutdown until noon the next day is the normal self-clearing time. I see you have several servers. which one is having this problem?

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auth-rate-limit/708625)._