Skip to content
Kong Logo | Kong Docs Logo
search
  • We're Hiring!
  • Docs
    • Kong Gateway
    • Kong Konnect
    • Kong Mesh
    • Plugin Hub
    • decK
    • Kubernetes Ingress Controller
    • Insomnia
    • Kuma

    • Docs contribution guidelines
  • Plugin Hub
  • Support
  • Community
  • Kong Academy
Get a Demo Start Free Trial
  • Kong Gateway
  • Kong Konnect
  • Kong Mesh
  • Plugin Hub
  • decK
  • Kubernetes Ingress Controller
  • Insomnia
  • Kuma

  • Docs contribution guidelines
  • 3.2.x (latest)
  • 3.1.x
  • 3.0.x
  • 2.8.x
  • 2.7.x
  • 2.6.x
  • Older Enterprise versions (2.1-2.5)
  • Older OSS versions (2.1-2.5)
  • Archive (pre-2.1)
    • Overview of Kong Gateway
      • Version Support Policy
      • Third Party Dependencies
      • Browser Support
    • Stability
    • Release Notes
      • Services
        • Overview
        • Configure Routes with Expressions
      • Upstreams
      • Plugins
      • Routing Traffic
      • Load Balancing
      • Health Checks and Circuit Breakers
      • Kong Performance Testing
    • Glossary
    • Get Kong
    • Services and Routes
    • Rate Limiting
    • Proxy Caching
    • Key Authentication
    • Load-Balancing
      • Overview
        • Overview
        • Deploy Kong Gateway in Hybrid mode
      • DB-less Deployment
      • Traditional
      • Overview
        • Helm
        • OpenShift with Helm
        • kubectl apply
        • Kubernetes Deployment Options
        • Using docker run
        • Build your own Docker images
        • Amazon Linux
        • Debian
        • Red Hat
        • Ubuntu
      • Running Kong as a non-root user
      • Securing the Admin API
      • Using systemd
      • Start Kong Gateway Securely
      • Programatically Creating Admins
      • Enabling RBAC
      • Overview
      • Download your License
      • Deploy Enterprise License
      • Using the License API
      • Monitor Licenses Usage
      • Default Ports
      • DNS Considerations
      • Network and Firewall
      • CP/DP Communication through a Forward Proxy
        • Configure PostgreSQL TLS
        • Troubleshooting PostgreSQL TLS
    • Kong Configuration File
    • Environment Variables
    • Serving a Website and APIs from Kong
      • Overview
      • Prometheus
      • StatsD
      • Datadog
      • Overview
      • Writing a Custom Trace Exporter
      • Tracing API Reference
    • Resource Sizing Guidelines
    • Security Update Process
    • Blue-Green Deployments
    • Canary Deployments
    • Clustering Reference
      • Log Reference
      • Dynamic log level updates
      • Customize Gateway Logs
      • Upgrade Kong Gateway 3.x.x
      • Migrate from OSS to Enterprise
    • Overview
      • Overview
      • Metrics
      • Analytics with InfluxDB
      • Analytics with Prometheus
      • Estimate Analytics Storage in PostgreSQL
      • Overview
      • Getting Started
      • Advanced Usage
        • Overview
        • Environment Variables
        • AWS Secrets Manager
        • Google Secrets Manager
        • Hashicorp Vault
        • Securing the Database with AWS Secrets Manager
      • Reference Format
      • Overview
      • Get Started with Dynamic Plugin Ordering
      • Overview
      • Enable the Dev Portal
      • Publish an OpenAPI Spec
      • Structure and File Types
      • Themes Files
      • Working with Templates
      • Using the Editor
        • Basic Auth
        • Key Auth
        • OIDC
        • Sessions
        • Adding Custom Registration Fields
        • Manage Developers
        • Developer Roles and Content Permissions
        • Authorization Provider Strategy
        • Enable Application Registration
        • Enable Key Authentication for Application Registration
          • External OAuth2 Support
          • Set up Okta and Kong for External Oauth
          • Set up Azure AD and Kong for External Authentication
        • Manage Applications
        • Theme Editing
        • Migrating Templates Between Workspaces
        • Markdown Rendering Module
        • Customizing Portal Emails
        • Adding and Using JavaScript Assets
        • Single Page App in Dev Portal
        • Alternate OpenAPI Renderer
      • SMTP
      • Workspaces
      • Helpers CLI
      • Portal API Documentation
    • Audit Logging
    • Keyring and Data Encryption
    • Workspaces
    • Consumer Groups
    • Event Hooks
    • Configure Data Plane Resilience
    • About Control Plane Outage Management
      • Overview
      • Install the FIPS Compliant Package
      • FIPS 140-2 Compliant Plugins
    • Overview
    • Enable Kong Manager
      • Services and Routes
      • Rate Limiting
      • Proxy Caching
      • Authentication with Consumers
      • Load Balancing
      • Overview
      • Create a Super Admin
      • Workspaces and Teams
      • Reset Passwords and RBAC Tokens
      • Basic Auth
        • Configure LDAP
        • LDAP Service Directory Mapping
        • Configure OIDC
        • OIDC Authenticated Group Mapping
      • Sessions
        • Overview
        • Enable RBAC
        • Add a Role and Permissions
        • Create a User
        • Create an Admin
    • Networking Configuration
    • Workspaces
    • Create Consumer Groups
    • Sending Email
    • Overview
    • File Structure
    • Implementing Custom Logic
    • Plugin Configuration
    • Accessing the Data Store
    • Storing Custom Entities
    • Caching Custom Entities
    • Extending the Admin API
    • Writing Tests
    • (un)Installing your Plugin
      • Overview
      • kong.client
      • kong.client.tls
      • kong.cluster
      • kong.ctx
      • kong.ip
      • kong.jwe
      • kong.log
      • kong.nginx
      • kong.node
      • kong.request
      • kong.response
      • kong.router
      • kong.service
      • kong.service.request
      • kong.service.response
      • kong.table
      • kong.tracing
      • kong.vault
      • kong.websocket.client
      • kong.websocket.upstream
      • Go
      • Javascript
      • Python
      • Running Plugins in Containers
      • External Plugin Performance
    • Overview
        • Overview
        • OpenID Connect with Curity
        • OpenID Connect with Azure AD
        • OpenID Connect with Google
        • OpenID Connect with Okta
        • OpenID Connect with Auth0
        • OpenID Connect with Cognito
      • Authentication Reference
      • Allow Multiple Authentication Plugins
    • Rate Limiting Plugin
      • Add a Body Value
    • GraphQL
      • gRPC Plugins
      • Configure a gRPC service
    • Overview
    • Information Routes
    • Health Routes
    • Tags
    • Debug Routes
    • Services
    • Routes
    • Consumers
    • Plugins
    • Certificates
    • CA Certificates
    • SNIs
    • Upstreams
    • Targets
    • Vaults
    • Keys
    • Licenses
    • Workspaces
    • RBAC
    • Admins
    • Developers
    • Consumer Groups
    • Event Hooks
    • Keyring and Data Encryption
    • Audit Logs
    • kong.conf
    • Injecting Nginx Directives
    • CLI
    • Key Management
    • Performance Testing Framework
    • Router Expressions Language
    • FAQ

github-edit-pageEdit this page

report-issueReport an issue

enterprise-switcher-iconSwitch to OSS

On this page
  • List consumer groups
    • List all consumer groups
    • List a specific consumer group
    • List all consumers in a consumer group
    • List consumer groups for a consumer
  • Create a consumer group
  • Add a consumer to a group
  • Delete a consumer group
  • Remove consumers
    • Remove a consumer from all groups
    • Remove a consumer from a consumer group
    • Remove all consumers from a consumer group
  • Configure rate limiting for a consumer group
  • Delete the configurations for a consumer group
Kong Gateway
3.2.x (latest)
  • Home
  • Kong Gateway
  • Admin API
  • Consumer Groups
  • Consumer Groups Reference

Consumer Groups Reference

Use consumer groups to manage custom rate limiting configuration for subsets of consumers.

The consumer_groups endpoint works together with the Rate Limiting Advanced plugin. To use consumer groups for rate limiting, configure the plugin with the enforce_consumer_groups and consumer_groups parameters, then use the /consumer_groups endpoint to manage the groups.

Consumer groups can be tagged and filtered by tags.

For more information and examples of setting up and managing consumer groups, see the Consumer Groups examples.

List consumer groups

List all consumer groups

Endpoint

/consumer_groups

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
    "data": [
        {
            "created_at": 1557522650,
            "id": "42b022c1-eb3c-4512-badc-1aee8c0f50b5",
            "name": "my_group",
            "tags": null
        },
        {
            "created_at": 1637706162,
            "id": "fa6881b2-f49f-4007-9475-577cd21d34f4",
            "name": "my_group2",
            "tags": null
        }
    ],
    "next": null
}

List a specific consumer group

Endpoint

/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID}
Attribute Description
GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer group.

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
    "consumer_group": {
        "created_at": 1638917780,
        "id": "be4bcfca-b1df-4fac-83cc-5cf6774bf48e",
        "name": "JL",
        "tags": null
    }
}

List all consumers in a consumer group

Endpoint

/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID}/consumers
Attribute Description
GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer group.

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
    "consumers": [
        {
            "created_at": 1638918560,
            "id": "288f2bfc-04e2-4ec3-b6f3-40408dff5417",
            "type": 0,
            "username": "BarryAllen",
            "username_lower": "barryallen"
        },
        {
            "created_at": 1638915577,
            "id": "8089a0e6-1d31-4e00-bf51-5b902899b4cb",
            "type": 0,
            "username": "DianaPrince",
            "username_lower": "dianaprince"
        }
    ]
}

List consumer groups for a consumer

View all consumer groups that a consumer is assigned to.

Endpoint

/consumers/{CONSUMER_NAME|CONSUMER_ID}/consumer_groups
Attribute Description
USERNAME|CONSUMER_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer.

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
    "consumer_groups": [
        {
            "created_at": 1638918476,
            "id": "e2c3f16e-22c7-4ef4-b6e4-ab25c522b339",
            "name": "JL",
            "tags": null,
        }
    ]
}

Create a consumer group

Endpoint

/consumer_groups

Request body

Attribute Description
name
required
A unique name for the consumer group you want to create.
tags
optional
An optional set of strings associated with the consumer group for grouping and filtering.

Response

HTTP 201 Created
{
  "created_at": 1557522650,
  "id": "fa6881b2-f49f-4007-9475-577cd21d34f4",
  "name": "JL",
  "tags": ["tag1", "tag2"]
}

Endpoint

/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME}
Attribute Description
GROUP_NAME
required
A unique name for the consumer group you want to create.
tags
optional
An optional set of strings associated with the consumer group for grouping and filtering.

Response

HTTP 201 Created
{
  "created_at": 1557522650,
  "id": "fa6881b2-f49f-4007-9475-577cd21d34f4",
  "name": "JL",
  "tags": ["tag1", "tag2"]
}

Add a consumer to a group

Add a consumer to a specific consumer group.

If you add a consumer to multiple groups:

  • If all groups are allowed by the Rate Limiting Advanced plugin, only the first group’s settings will apply.
  • Otherwise, whichever group is specified in the Rate Limiting Advanced plugin will be active.

Consumers endpoint

/consumers/{CONSUMER_NAME|CONSUMER_ID}/consumer_groups
Attribute Description
CONSUMER_NAME|CONSUMER_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer.

Request body

Attribute Description
group
required
The name or ID of the group to add the consumer to.

Response

HTTP 201 Created
{
    "consumer": {
        "created_at": 1638918560,
        "custom_id": null,
        "id": "288f2bfc-04e2-4ec3-b6f3-40408dff5417",
        "tags": null,
        "type": 0,
        "username": "BarryAllen",
        "username_lower": "barryallen"
    },
    "consumer_groups": [
        {
            "created_at": 1638918476,
            "id": "e2c3f16e-22c7-4ef4-b6e4-ab25c522b339",
            "name": "JL",
            "tags": null
        }
    ]
}

Consumer groups endpoint

/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID}/consumers
Attribute Description
GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer group.

Request body

Attribute Description
consumer
required
The name or ID of the consumer to add to this group.

Response

HTTP 201 Created
{
  "consumer_group": {
  "created_at": 1638915521,
  "id": "8a4bba3c-7f82-45f0-8121-ed4d2847c4a4",
  "name": "JL"
  },
  "consumers": [
    {
        "created_at": 1638915577,
        "id": "8089a0e6-1d31-4e00-bf51-5b902899b4cb",
        "type": 0,
        "username": "DianaPrince",
        "username_lower": "dianaprince"
    }
  ]
}

Delete a consumer group

Deleting a consumer group removes all consumers from that group. It does not delete any consumers.

Endpoint

/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID}
Attribute Description
GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer group to delete.

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Remove consumers

Remove a consumer from all groups

Endpoint

/consumers/{CONSUMER_NAME|CONSUMER_ID}/consumer_groups
Attribute Description
CONSUMER_NAME|CONSUMER_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer to remove from all groups.

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Remove a consumer from a consumer group

Consumer endpoint

/consumers/{CONSUMER_NAME|CONSUMER_ID}/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID}
Attribute Description
CONSUMER_NAME|CONSUMER_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer to remove.
GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer group to remove the consumer from.

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Consumer groups endpoint

/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID}/consumers/{CONSUMER_NAME|CONSUMER_ID}
Attribute Description
GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer group to remove the consumer from.
CONSUMER_NAME|CONSUMER_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer to remove.

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Remove all consumers from a consumer group

/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID}/consumers
Attribute Description
GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer group to remove all consumers from.

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Configure rate limiting for a consumer group

Define custom rate limiting settings for a consumer group. This endpoint overrides the settings of the Rate Limiting Advanced plugin.

/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID}/overrides/plugins/rate-limiting-advanced
Attribute Description
GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer group to configure.

Request Body

Attribute Description
config.limit
required
An array of one or more requests-per-window limits to apply. There must be a matching number of window limits and sizes specified.
config.window_size
required
An array of one or more window sizes to apply a limit to (defined in seconds). There must be a matching number of window limits and sizes specified.
config.window_type
optional
Set the time window type to either sliding (default) or fixed.
config.retry_after_jitter_max
optional
The upper bound of a jitter (random delay) in seconds to be added to the Retry-After header of denied requests (status = 429) in order to prevent all the clients from coming back at the same time. The lower bound of the jitter is 0; in this case, the Retry-After header is equal to the RateLimit-Reset header.

Response

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
{
    "config": {
        "limit": [
            10
        ],
        "retry_after_jitter_max": 0,
        "window_size": [
            10
        ],
        "window_type": "sliding"
    },
    "group": "test-group",
    "plugin": "rate-limiting-advanced"
}

Delete the configurations for a consumer group

Delete custom rate limiting settings for a consumer group.

/consumer_groups/{GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID}/overrides/plugins/rate-limiting-advanced
Attribute Description
GROUP_NAME|GROUP_ID
required
The name or UUID of the consumer group to configure.

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Thank you for your feedback.
Was this page useful?
  • Kong
    THE CLOUD CONNECTIVITY COMPANY

    Kong powers reliable digital connections across APIs, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

    • Company
    • Customers
    • Events
    • Investors
    • Careers Hiring!
    • Partners
    • Press
    • Contact
  • Products
    • Kong Konnect
    • Kong Gateway
    • Kong Mesh
    • Get Started
    • Pricing
  • Resources
    • eBooks
    • Webinars
    • Briefs
    • Blog
    • API Gateway
    • Microservices
  • Open Source
    • Install Kong Gateway
    • Kong Community
    • Kubernetes Ingress
    • Kuma
    • Insomnia
  • Solutions
    • Decentralize
    • Secure & Govern
    • Create a Dev Platform
    • API Gateway
    • Kubernetes
    • Service Mesh
Star
  • Terms•Privacy
© Kong Inc. 2023