API Usage Dashboard — Monitor Your API Requests and Rate Limits

Account Feature

API Usage Dashboard

Every Opensolr account now has a dedicated API Usage page that gives you full visibility into how your application consumes the API. See your request volume, live rate limit gauges, per-endpoint breakdowns, and monthly trends.

What You Can See

Total Requests

Your total API calls for the selected month, updated every minute as data flows in from all servers.

Live Rate Gauges

Your last-minute and last-hour request counts shown as color-coded gauges. Green, yellow, or red — know instantly if you are close to being throttled.

Endpoint Breakdown

A full table showing which API endpoints your application calls and what percentage of traffic each one accounts for.

Monthly History

A bar chart of your request volume over the last 6 months so you can spot usage trends and plan ahead.

How Rate Limiting Works

Your App

API Client

→

Rate Limiter

Checks: 30/min, 500/hr

current usage

→

200 OK

Request processed

429 Too Many

Retry-After header sent

→

Dashboard

All logged and visible on your API Usage page

Every authenticated API request passes through the rate limiter. It uses sliding-window counters to track your usage per minute and per hour. If you are within limits, the request is processed normally. If you exceed your threshold, you get an HTTP 429 response with a Retry-After header.

Default Limits

requests / minute

Sliding window — resets continuously

500

requests / hour

Sliding window — resets continuously

Sliding windows, not fixed intervals. If you sent 30 requests between 10:00:15 and 10:00:45, you can send your next request at 10:01:15 when the oldest one falls out of the window — you do not need to wait until the next full minute boundary.

Which API Calls Count?

Every authenticated API endpoint counts toward your limits. The dashboard breaks them down individually:

ai_summary

embed

batch_embed

index (search)

commit

get_index_list

create_index

start_crawl

reload_core

+ all other endpoints

How to Access Your Dashboard

Log in to your Opensolr account at opensolr.com

Click Account in the top navigation bar

Select API Usage from the dropdown

Or navigate directly to /admin/solr_manager/my_api_usage

Need higher rate limits for your integration? We can set custom thresholds for your account.