# Site Admin - Rate Limiting

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## Site Admin - Rate Limiting

### What it Does

#### Rate Limiting - add

Allows user to create new rate limit settings for external tools and integrations.

#### Rate Limiting - edit

Allows user to modify existing rate limit settings, including changing rate limit values and comments.

#### Rate Limiting - delete

Allows user to remove rate limit settings for external tools and integrations.

#### Rate Limiting - view

Allows user to view all rate limit settings and their details.

### Additional Considerations

#### Site Admin Only

This permission is only available to Site Admin users and requires the api\_rate\_limits feature flag to be enabled.

#### External Tools

Rate limiting settings apply to external tools and integrations that use OAuth client configurations with throttling parameters.

#### UTID Integration

This feature supports UTID (Unified Tool ID) based rate limiting for partner tools and products.

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This documentation is generated directly from the Canvas LMS source code, available [on Github](https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms).