InfluxDB Cloud limits and adjustable quotas
InfluxDB Cloud applies (non-adjustable) global system limits and adjustable service quotas on a per organization basis.
All rates (data-in (writes), queries (reads), and deletes) are accrued within a fixed five-minute window. Once a rate is exceeded, an error response is returned until the current five-minute window resets.
Review adjustable service quotas and global limits to plan for your bandwidth needs:
Adjustable service quotas
To reduce the chance of unexpected charges and protect the service for all users, InfluxDB Cloud has adjustable service quotas applied per account.
Free Plan
- Data-in: Rate of 5 MB per 5 minutes (average of 17 kb/s)
- Uncompressed bytes of normalized line protocol
- Read: Rate of 300 MB per 5 minutes (average of 1000 kb/s)
- Bytes in HTTP in response payload
- Cardinality: 10k series (see how to measure and resolve high cardinality)
- Available resources:
- 2 buckets (excluding
_monitoringand_tasksbuckets) - 5 dashboards
- 5 tasks
- 2 buckets (excluding
- Alerts:
- 2 checks
- 2 notification rules
- Unlimited Slack notification endpoints
- Storage: 30 days of data retention (see retention period)
To write historical data older than 30 days, retain data for more than 30 days, increase rate limits, or create additional organizations, upgrade to the Cloud Usage-Based Plan.
Usage-Based Plan
- Data-in: Rate of 300 MB per 5 minutes
- Uncompressed bytes of normalized line protocol
- Read: Rate of 3 GB data per 5 minutes
- Bytes in HTTP in response payload
- Cardinality: 1M series (see how to measure and resolve high cardinality)
- Unlimited resources
- dashboards
- tasks
- buckets
- users
- Alerts
- Unlimited checks
- Unlimited notification rules
- Unlimited notification endpoints for all endpoints
- Storage: Set your retention period to unlimited or up to 1 year by updating a bucket’s retention period in the InfluxDB UI, or set a custom retention period using the
influxCLI.
Global limits
InfluxDB Cloud applies global (non-adjustable) system limits to all accounts, which protects the InfluxDB Cloud infrastructure for all users. As the service continues to evolve, we’ll continue to review these global limits and adjust them as appropriate.
Limits include:
Write request limits:
- 50 MB maximum HTTP request batch size (compressed or uncompressed–defined in the
Content-Encodingheader) - 250 MB maximum HTTP request batch size after decompression
- 50 MB maximum HTTP request batch size (compressed or uncompressed–defined in the
Query processing time: 90 seconds
Total query time: 1500 seconds of total query time every 30 seconds
Task processing time: 150 seconds
Total task time: 1500 seconds of total task time every 30 seconds
Delete request limit: Rate of 300 every 5 minutes
Tip: Combine delete predicate expressions (if possible) into a single request. InfluxDB limits delete requests by number of requests (not points per request).
UI error messages
The InfluxDB Cloud (TSM) UI displays a notification message when service quotas or limits are exceeded. The error messages correspond with the relevant API error responses.
Errors can also be viewed in the Usage page under Limit Events, e.g. event_type_limited_query, event_type_limited_write,event_type_limited_cardinality, or event_type_limited_delete_rate.
API error responses
The following API error responses occur when your plan’s service quotas are exceeded.
| HTTP response code | Error message | Description |
|---|---|---|
HTTP 413 "Request Too Large" | cannot read data: points in batch is too large | If a write request exceeds the maximum global limit |
HTTP 429 "Too Many Requests" | Retry-After: xxx (seconds to wait before retrying the request) | If a read or write request exceeds your plan’s adjustable service quotas or if a delete request exceeds the maximum global limit |
HTTP 429 "Too Many Requests" | Series cardinality exceeds your plan’s service quota | If series cardinality exceeds your plan’s adjustable service quotas |
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