Do Atlassian Confluence Cloud API rate limits apply to custom macros hosted on our own cloud server?

[Prolaborate]

Hi Atlassian team,

I recently came across the announcement about API rate limiting(Rate Limiting-Documnet) for the Confluence Cloud REST API, and I wanted some clarification regarding our use case.

We’ve developed a custom Confluence macro that is hosted on our cloud server and published on the Atlassian Marketplace using an atlassian-connect.json descriptor.

The macro interacts with the Confluence Cloud REST API via the usual authenticated API calls.

My question is:

Do the new rate limits apply to these API calls made from our custom macro backend?

And if so:

Are the total rate limits per app per tenant or per tenant?
How should we handle or monitor these limits effectively for marketplace-hosted apps?
Just trying to ensure we’re building with these limits in mind going forward.

I appreciate any help you can provide.

[Olivier Stiévenart]

Hi @Prolaborate,

Yes it does apply to your app.

The quota is calculated from various metrics, including global API usage (cross tenants) and per-tenant basis.

There are new HTTP headers implemented in the API responses that will tell you where you are in your current usage.

Hope this helps,

Olivier

[marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-]

The rate limits apply to your custom macro.  For further information, I would check the Atlassian developers site: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rate-limiting/#introduction