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Notification / Warning of approaching API rate limits



Posted Feb 27, 2024

Please give a quick overview of your product feature request or feedback and note who in your org is affected by this issue [ex. agents, admins, customers, etc.]. (2-3 sentences)

Would love to have notifications push a warning BEFORE you hit the rate limit for Zendesk's APIs or the ability to set up external monitoring tools would be a huge win and help prevent service interruptions for teams leveraging the Zendesk APIs.

What problem do you see this solving? (1-2 sentences) 

The additional detail in the API Dash, while helpful, remains a reactive solution. Sending a notice when we're approaching the limit OR enabling us to hook up other monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog, PagerDuty, etc) to notify us is a necessity to us really leveraging them in earnest.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool? What happened? How often does this problem occur and how does this impact your business? (3-4 sentences)

For more clarity: we have clear opportunities to reduce effort internally or for our customers using the API, but we have to weigh the need to monitor its behaviour manually against the benefits of the implementation. As a result we often have to choose less impactful solutions in order to ensure lots of space for the calls of our existing solutions. This is something we are dealing with at least once a quarter.

Are you currently using a workaround to solve this problem? (If yes, please explain) (1-2 sentences)

No. 

What would be your ideal solution to this problem? How would it work or function? (1-2 sentences)

Ideally I'd love to monitor this as part of our existing tooling (i.e. third party) but even the ability to schedule an email or push a slack notification to the responsible team at a particular % of use or error threshold would be a huge improvement over current state.


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Shawna James

Community Product Feedback Specialist

Hello Sio, 
 
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. This has been logged for our PM team to review, and for future reference, here’s our product feedback template. This template has been designed by community members and PM's to help users provide the most accurate details for their feature request so that we can better understand your use case and needs. You do not need to update your post now but we would appreciate it in the future if you could utilize the template.
 
For others who may be interested in this feature request, please add your support by upvoting this post and/or adding your use case to the comments below. Thank you again!

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Hey Shawna! Thanks for the reply. For my own edification: I did use the format you've referenced here but it sounds like the preference is for the headings to remain within the text, is that right? I have gone ahead and added them back in.

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Shawna James

Community Product Feedback Specialist

My bad Sio! I read too quickly, human error 😀️ I missed the piece in your original post about who this impacts most in your organization and how often which make me share that template. It's no worries about the titles, I just want to make sure the information is there for our PM's to respond. Thank you again for your feedback! 

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Agreed with your use case. We also reached our limits when using APIs and our agents were left hanging and couldn't answer tickets because our services use API to transmit information to customers using APIs. 

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Agreed with the use case as well, I mentioned it as well here

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