How to Implement Nginx Rate Limiting: Protect Against Brute‑Force, Crawlers, and Traffic Spikes
This article explains how to use Nginx's built‑in limit_req and limit_conn modules—based on the leaky‑bucket algorithm—to throttle requests by IP or API key, configure burst and nodelay behavior, apply whitelists, customize error responses, fine‑tune with delay and dry‑run modes, and monitor effectiveness in production environments.
