Service Protection

No. The Service Protection plugin only rate limits Gateway Services. You can still use the Rate Limiting and Rate Limiting Advanced plugins to rate limit other entities, like Consumers and Routes.

Yes. You can rate limit a Gateway Service with the Service Protection plugin, then rate limit Routes, Consumers, or Consumer Groups with the other rate limiting plugins. We don’t recommend using multiple rate limiting plugins on the same Service only. We recommend applying Service Protection on the Service, and Rate Limiting (or Rate Limiting Advanced) on the Service/Consumer pair, for more granular rate limits.