1015 🟧 Cloudflare

Cloudflare Error 1015: You are being rate limited

The site’s Cloudflare rate-limiting rule blocked you for sending too many requests in a short time.

Seen on: Cloudflare

Meaning

Rate limiting rules count requests per IP (or other keys). Scripts, retries, monitoring tools, or many users behind one NAT IP hit the limit. The block lasts for the rule’s mitigation timeout.

Common causes

  • Script or crawler sending requests too fast
  • Aggressive client retries
  • Many users sharing one IP (office NAT, CGNAT)
  • Owner’s rule threshold too low

⚡ Quick fix

  1. Slow down and back off; wait for the timeout
  2. Use the site’s API with proper limits
  3. Owner: raise the threshold or key on a better identifier

Detailed fix by platform

Cloudflare

  1. # Security → WAF → Rate limiting rules (owner side): adjust requests per period / mitigation timeout

How to diagnose

  1. Rate — Requests per minute from the client
  2. Shared IP — NAT/office?
  3. Rule — Threshold and period

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