About the Rate Limit INFO messageｓ

Products

• CA API Gateway
• API SECURITY
• CA API Gateway Precision API Monitoring Module for API Gateway (Layer 7)
• CA API Gateway Enterprise Service Manager (Layer 7)
• STARTER PACK-7
• CA Microgateway

Issue/Introduction

The following messages are output in large quantities in the SSG log

 INFO   xxx com.l7tech.external.assertions.ratelimit.server.ServerRateLimitAssertion: Removing stale rate limiter d352306d-6030-4d43-866d-bb742384e150

INFO   xxx com.l7tech.policy.wsp.PermissiveWspVisitor: Ignoring invalid property MaxRequestsPerSecond of class com.l7tech.external.assertions.ratelimit.RateLimitAssertion

What  messages are they?

Environment

Release : 9.2

Component : API GTW ENTERPRISE MANAGER

Resolution

INFO    xxx com.l7tech.external.assertions.ratelimit.server.ServerRateLimitAssertion: Removing stale rate limiter d352306d-6030-4d43-866d-bb742384e150

-> This " refers to the Gateway cleaning up it's rate limit counters. 

INFO    xxx com.l7tech.policy.wsp.PermissiveWspVisitor: Ignoring invalid property MaxRequestsPerSecond of class com.l7tech.external.assertions.ratelimit.RateLimitAssertion

->  This implies the policies are not current to gateway version.

As I mentioned, this INFO level message should not impact the gateway/portal functionalities, and the rate limit assertion is used by portal integration policies.

Besides, they are INFO messages, should not be a problem. 

INFO level message should not impact the gateway/portal functionalities.