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title: conf/rate
slug: ps/help/en_us/vtm/config/confrate
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createdAt: 2026-08-02T08:50:32.765Z
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The conf/rate directory contains configuration files for request rate shaping classes. The name of a file is the name of the rate shaping class it defines. Request rate shaping classes can be configured under the Catalogs > Rate section of the Admin Server UI or by using functions under the Catalog.Rate section of the SOAP API and CLI.
| Key | Description |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| max\_rate\_per\_minute | Requests that are associated with this rate class will be rate-shaped to this many requests per minute, set to 0 to disable the limit.
Value type: unsigned integer
Default value: "0" |
| max\_rate\_per\_second | Although requests will be rate-shaped to the max\_rate\_per\_minute, the traffic manager will also rate limit per-second. This smooths traffic so that a full minute's traffic will not be serviced in the first second of the minute, set this to 0 to disable the per-second limit.
Value type: unsigned integer
Default value: "0" |
| note | A description of the rate class.
Value type: string
Default value: \ |