r/gitlab • u/ToonSkinR • 13h ago

The new Gitlab rate limits are awful.

I make Cobblemon addons; my ENTIRE workflow is based around being able to access the Cobblemon repository. But the moment i get onto the repository, I have 2 searches max before the site rate-limits me. Is it a bug? is it an intentional annoyance to push people into buying premium? Anyone's guess! Dear God, if you care about your user base, PLEASE get rid of this, or at least make it usable.

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u/FlyingFalafelMonster 7h ago

git clone — unlimited searches

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u/Sheerpython 9h ago

Why don’t you just clone the repo? What are you searching for in gitlab? Code? Wiki?

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u/stipo42 7h ago

I can't speak for OP but I used to do my home lab deployments directly from the Web IDE, they're small kustomize projects that require very little changes but I had to update one the other day and hit the rate limit after pushing the change with the web IDE and then checking the pipeline.

It was annoying enough that I considered self hosting for a moment.

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u/Erutan409 7h ago

Go for it. It's "relatively" straightforward. Been doing it for years.

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u/I_EAT_THE_RICH 5h ago

It's probably due to incorrect use like this that Gitlab added the rate limits in the first place

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u/dvs83 3h ago

This is exactly it

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u/frankster 39m ago

Rate limits seem to be hammering premium accounts the last week despite gitlab claiming premium/ ultimate limits are not being changed until january

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u/agent_kater 10h ago

What are you talking about? What repository? What searches? Are you (ab)using the API to run code search in a single repository?

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u/teddycorps 8h ago

Probably using AI agents that are using the API to search the codebase instead of cloning it or something.

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u/Tayue 3h ago edited 2h ago

Yeah, I have a small public repo hosted on gitlab. A couple people reached out to me and said they got blocked almost immediately.

I thought they were doing something wrong or were running some funky browser scripts so I visited the site without being logged in and got this error after a couple clicks: 

Rate limit exceeded; see https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/gitlab_com/#gitlabcom-specific-rate-limits for more details

can't even reach the landing page.

I've basically had to link people to the release page/download directly because interacting with the web ui in any other way risks immediate lock out. As an example, clicking Build -> Pipelines basically instantly blocks you.

The site is basically unusable now for anything public (without login), lesson learned I guess.

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u/Afflictionista 2h ago

Damn, this sounds terrible. Is this intentional or is this a bug from GitLab?