Account limits

The limits service is accessible using the url path /v2/limits.

It’s purpose is to verify account limits which are based on the account type.

curl -x GET 'https://api-pdns.deteque.com/v2/limits' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer <AUTH TOKEN>'

The response objects will include your account’s tier access limits in the following format:

{
    "account": {
        "id": "12345678",
        "maximum-dataset-size": 5000,
        "allow-over-quota": 0,
        "allow-advanced-search": 1,
        "realtime-sockets": 0
    },
    "limits": {
        "qpm": 10000,
        "qpd": 2000
    },
    "current": {
        "qpm": 88,
        "qpd": 88,
        "rpm": 2296,
        "rpd": 2296
    },
    "status": 200
}

Each parameter of the response object has the following meaning:

• status: will be 200 in the case of success, otherwise an error occurred

• account: an object which shows several account-related settings

  • id: shows the account identifier

  • maximum-dataset-size: shows the maximum number of records for each result set (also the maximum value that the query parameter limit may have)

  • allow-over-quota: can be 0 or 1 and shows if the account can perform over-quota queries

  • allow-advanced-search: can be 0 or 1 and shows if the account is enabled for advanced search queries

  • realtime-sockets: can be 0 or 1 and shows if the account is enabled to connect to the realtime socket receiving the live feed of passive dns queries.

• limits: an object that contains the global limits of the account

  • qpm: an integer showing the max number of queries per month

  • qpd: an integer showing the max number of queries per day

• current: an object that contains the current status of the account

  • qpm: shows the number of actual queries performed during the current month

  • qpd: shows the number of actual queries performed during the current day

  • rpm: shows the number of results received during the current month

  • rpd: shows the number of results received during the current day