API rate limiting
For Cloud efficiency and security reasons, Sigfox is moving a step forward on API rate limiting, by setting upper bounds for some API endpoints use.
Please note that following HTTP response is to be integrated by the customer information system in case of exceeded rate : “HTTP 429: too many requests”.
API rate limiting does not apply to Paging mechanism (case when a response contains more than 100 entries).
You’ll find below the list of Endpoint with the new rate limitation and reason for change :
Endpoint | Description | Reason for change | Rate limitation (max) | Available from |
api.sigfox.com/v2/devices/<id>/messages | Retrieve a list of device messages (GET method) | Device messages are pushed by the Backend to the customer Information System via callback and/or connector. | 1 request every second. |
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api.sigfox.com/v2/devices/<id> | Retrieve device information (GET method) Update a device (PUT method) Delete a device (DELETE method) | Device information page is not likely to change frequently (name, last seen etc). | 1 request every 60 minutes. |
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| api.sigfox.com/v2/coverages/global/predictions/bulk | Starting the computation of the coverage margins for multiple points, for each redundancy level (POST method) | Optimization of system resources | 5 requests every 5 minutes. |
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| api.sigfox.com/v2/coverages/global/predictions/bulk/{jobId} | Retrieve coverage predictions computation from asynchronous job status and results (GET method) | Optimization of system resources | 10 requests every minute. | |
| api.sigfox.com/v2/coverages/global/predictions | Get the coverage margins for each redundancy level (GET and POST method) | Optimization of system resources | 10 requests every minute. | |
| api.sigfox.com/v2/devices/bulk api.sigfox.com/v2/devices/bulk/transfer api.sigfox.com/v2/base-stations/bulk | Modify a list of devices Transfer a list of devices Modify a list of Base-Stations | Optimization/Protection of system ressources | 5 requests every 10 minutes. |
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Sigfox reserves the right to modify those limits without notice.
