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Configuring Limits

If you have not yet configured metrics, please visit the metrics guide first before working through the limits configuration.

The limits facility in zrok is responsible for controlling the number of resources in use (environments, shares) and also for ensuring that any single account, environment, or share is held below the configured thresholds.

Take this zrok controller configuration stanza as an example:

limits:
  enforcing:        true
  cycle:            1m
  environments:     -1
  shares:           -1
  bandwidth:
    per_account:
      period:       5m
      warning:
        rx:         -1
        tx:         -1
        total:      7242880
      limit:
        rx:         -1
        tx:         -1
        total:      10485760
    per_environment:
      period:       5m
      warning:
        rx:         -1
        tx:         -1
        total:      -1
      limit:
        rx:         -1
        tx:         -1
        total:      -1
    per_share:
      period:       5m
      warning:
        rx:         -1
        tx:         -1
        total:      -1
      limit:
        rx:         -1
        tx:         -1
        total:      -1

The Global Controls​

The enforcing boolean will globally enable or disable limits for the controller.

The cycle value controls how frequently the limits system will look for limited resources to re-enable.

Resource Limits​

The environments and shares values control the number of environments and shares that are allowed per-account. Any limit value can be set to -1, which means unlimited.

Bandwidth Limits​

The bandwidth section is designed to provide a configurable system for controlling the amount of data transfer that can be performed by users of the zrok service instance. The bandwidth limits are configurable for each share, environment, and account.

per_account, per_environment, and per_share are all configured the same way:

The period specifies the time window for the bandwidth limit. See the documentation for time.Duration.ParseDuration for details about the format used for these durations. If the period is set to 5 minutes, then the limits implementation will monitor the send and receive traffic for the resource (share, environment, or account) for the last 5 minutes, and if the amount of data is greater than either the warning or the limit threshold, action will be taken.

The rx value is the number of bytes received by the resource. The tx value is the number of bytes transmitted by the resource. And total is the combined rx+tx value.

If the traffic quantity is greater than the warning threshold, the user will receive an email notification letting them know that their data transfer size is rising and will eventually be limited (the email details the limit threshold).

If the traffic quantity is greater than the limit threshold, the resources will be limited until the traffic in the window (the last 5 minutes in our example) falls back below the limit threshold.

Limit Actions​

When a resource is limited, the actions taken differ depending on what kind of resource is being limited.

When a share is limited, the dial service policies for that share are removed. No other action is taken. This means that public frontends will simply return a 404 as if the share is no longer there. Private frontends will also return 404 errors. When the limit is relaxed, the dial policies are put back in place and the share will continue operating normally.

When an environment is limited, all of the shares in that environment become limited, and the user is not able to create new shares in that environment. When the limit is relaxed, all of the share limits are relaxed and the user is again able to add shares to the environment.

When an account is limited, all of the environments in that account become limited (limiting all of the shares), and the user is not able to create new environments or shares. When the limit is relaxed, all of the environments and shares will return to normal operation.

Unlimited Accounts​

The accounts table in the database includes a limitless column. When this column is set to true the account is not subject to any of the limits in the system.