Set up rate limit policy

This sample script sets up rate limit policy.

Note

This article uses the Azure Az PowerShell module, which is the recommended PowerShell module for interacting with Azure. To get started with the Az PowerShell module, see Install Azure PowerShell. To learn how to migrate to the Az PowerShell module, see Migrate Azure PowerShell from AzureRM to Az.

Use Azure Cloud Shell

Azure hosts Azure Cloud Shell, an interactive shell environment that you can use through your browser. You can use either Bash or PowerShell with Cloud Shell to work with Azure services. You can use the Cloud Shell preinstalled commands to run the code in this article, without having to install anything on your local environment.

To start Azure Cloud Shell:

Option Example/Link
Select Try It in the upper-right corner of a code block. Selecting Try It doesn't automatically copy the code to Cloud Shell. Screenshot that shows an example of Try It for Azure Cloud Shell.
Go to https://shell.azure.com, or select the Launch Cloud Shell button to open Cloud Shell in your browser. Screenshot that shows how to launch Cloud Shell in a new window.
Select the Cloud Shell button on the menu bar at the upper right in the Azure portal. Screenshot that shows the Cloud Shell button in the Azure portal

To run the code in this article in Azure Cloud Shell:

  1. Start Cloud Shell.

  2. Select the Copy button on a code block to copy the code.

  3. Paste the code into the Cloud Shell session by selecting Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows and Linux, or by selecting Cmd+Shift+V on macOS.

  4. Select Enter to run the code.

If you choose to install and use the PowerShell locally, this tutorial requires the Azure PowerShell module version 1.0 or later. Run Get-Module -ListAvailable Az to find the version. If you need to upgrade, see Install Azure PowerShell module. If you are running PowerShell locally, you also need to run Connect-AzAccount to create a connection with Azure.

Sample script

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#  Script to apply Rate Limit to Policy at the Product Level 
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$random = (New-Guid).ToString().Substring(0,8)

#Azure specific details
$subscriptionId = "my-azure-subscription-id"

# Api Management service specific details
$apimServiceName = "apim-$random"
$resourceGroupName = "apim-rg-$random"
$location = "Japan East"
$organisation = "Contoso"
$adminEmail = "admin@contoso.com"

# Set the context to the subscription Id where the cluster will be created
Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId

# Create a resource group.
New-AzResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroupName -Location $location

# Create the Api Management service. Since the SKU is not specified, it creates a service with Developer SKU. 
New-AzApiManagement -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $apimServiceName -Location $location -Organization $organisation -AdminEmail $adminEmail

# Set context to newly created service
$context = New-AzApiManagementContext -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -ServiceName $apimServiceName

# create a rate-limit product level policy
$productValid = '<policies><inbound><rate-limit calls="5" renewal-period="60" /><quota calls="100" renewal-period="604800" /><base /></inbound><outbound><base /></outbound></policies>'
$product = Get-AzApiManagementProduct -Context $context -Title 'Unlimited'

# setup Policy at the Product Level. Policies can be applied at entire API Management Service Scope, Api Scope, Product Scope and Api Operation Scope
Set-AzApiManagementPolicy -Context $context  -Policy $productValid -ProductId $product.ProductId -PassThru

Clean up resources

When no longer needed, you can use the Remove-AzResourceGroup command to remove the resource group and all related resources.

Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name myResourceGroup

Next steps

For more information on the Azure PowerShell module, see Azure PowerShell documentation.

Additional Azure PowerShell samples for Azure API Management can be found in the PowerShell samples.