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nielswinters
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28 days ago

How to handle rate limiting in the LogicMonitor SDK v3?

In order to prevent running into 429 errors, I would like to check the 'x-rate-limit-remaining' in the response headers when I have made a call. But it appears these headers are only returned when an...
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Joe_Williams
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23 days ago

So the idea is, for each call you make, you use the one that has the with_http_info. That then returns the headers. You then look for the x-rate-limit-remaining and do something like if x-rate-limit-remaining < 2 then sleep for 30 seconds. If you want I can work up a working example here shortly.

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Joe_Williams
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23 days ago

llama Here is a working example. This will never trigger the sleep, but gives you an idea of how it works.

import os
import logicmonitor_sdk
import time
lmsdkconfig = logicmonitor_sdk.Configuration()
lmsdkconfig.company = os.getenv("LM_PORTAL")
lmsdkconfig.auth_type = 'Bearer'
lmsdkconfig.bearer_token = os.getenv("LM_BEARER")

lmsdk = logicmonitor_sdk.LMApi(logicmonitor_sdk.ApiClient(lmsdkconfig))

x = 0
while x < 10:
    user = lmsdk.get_admin_list_with_http_info(size=1,offset=x)
    user_id = user[0].items[0].id
    print(f'user_id: {user_id}')
    headerinfo = user[2]
    lm_api_limit = int(user[2].get('x-rate-limit-limit'))
    lm_api_remaining = int(user[2].get('x-rate-limit-remaining'))
    lm_api_window = int(user[2].get('x-rate-limit-window'))
    
    # print(f"lm_api_limit: {lm_api_limit}")
    print(f"lm_api_remaining: {lm_api_remaining}")
    # print(f"lm_api_window: {lm_api_window}")
    x += 1
    if lm_api_remaining < 2:
        print(f"Rate limit is almost reached, sleeping for {lm_api_window} seconds")
        time.sleep(lm_api_window)