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# Incident management rate limits **(ULTIMATE SELF)**

> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/17859) in GitLab 12.5.

You can limit the number of inbound alerts for [incidents](../../operations/incident_management/incidents.md)
that can be created in a period of time. The inbound [incident management](../../operations/incident_management/index.md)
alert limit can help prevent overloading your incident responders by reducing the
number of alerts or duplicate issues.

As an example, if you set a limit of `10` requests every `60` seconds,
and `11` requests are sent to an [alert integration endpoint](../../operations/incident_management/integrations.md) within one minute,
the eleventh request is blocked. Access to the endpoint is allowed again after one minute.

This limit is:

- Applied independently per project.
- Not applied per IP address.
- Disabled by default.

Requests that exceed the limit are logged into `auth.log`.

## Set a limit on inbound alerts

To set inbound incident management alert limits:

1. On the left sidebar, at the bottom, select **Admin Area**.
1. Select **Settings > Network**.
1. Expand **Incident Management Limits**.
1. Select the **Enable Incident Management inbound alert limit** checkbox.
1. Optional. Input a custom value for **Maximum requests per project per rate limit period**. Default is 3600.
1. Optional. Input a custom value for **Rate limit period**. Default is 3600 seconds.