Error
Try the suggestions in this Community Tip to help you fix “You are being rate limited (Error 1015)” when visiting a site protected by Cloudflare.
Background
When visiting a site, an error 1015 indicates that the owner of the site has implemented rate limiting rules that are affecting your session. When this happens, you’ll see the error “You are being rate limited (Error: 1015)”. This is a different error than “Unable to purge (Code: 1015)” that may appear on the Cloudflare Dashboard when purging cache.
Quick Fix Ideas
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If you are visiting the site, contact the site owner and let them know that you received the Rate Limit error and ask them to check their Firewall Rules.
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If you are the site owner, review Cloudflare Rate Limiting, specifically the section regarding what thresholds you may want to use. Then, revisit the configurations of the rate limiting for the domain to resolve frequent blocking.
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In rare instances, you have disabled rate limiting but are still encountering the Rate Limited error. In this case, you may be rate-limited by rules that were previously configured on your account. Enable Rate Limiting and check if the rule is still active. If so, delete the offending rule and then disable Rate Limiting.
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You have enabled rate limiting but it is set too aggressive. Check if you have a rule to block n requests a sohrt period of time, like 1 second; this is not a setting we can support. Change this to ~10 seconds.
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If you’re writing a Worker that you expect to exceed rate limits, see the Workers documentation on how to proceed.
Lite Reading
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001635128-Configuring-Rate-Limiting-in-the-Cloudflare-Dashboard
If You Need More Help
This community of other Cloudflare users may be able to assist you, login to Cloudflare and post your question to the Community. When you post on the Community make sure to include as much of this information as possible: the specific error message you are seeing, the URLs this is happening on, screen shot of the error, and the steps to reproduce the error. Please indicate what troubleshooting steps you’ve tried in order to help us help you.
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