Approach for Load testing of Jira rest api

[Sunilkumar k]

I am doing load testing of Jira rest api by using locust, when i am running with more than 20 user instances its failing after particular number of hits and again it is getting passed after certain time of interval, so will that be because i am running many user instances from the single IP address and making so many number of requests?

Jira is stopping me to access the app if i am giving more requests with many user instances with the single IP address .
Is there any other approach or tools that i need to follow to perform the load testing of Jira rest api ?

Thanks in Advance !

[David Bakkers]

I'm so glad Atlassian applies rate limiting on the REST APIs of their cloud platform. It stops people like you from doing what you're doing, in direct contravention of what it says in Jira's Rate Limiting documentation telling you not to do that:

Testing

Do not perform rate limit testing against Atlassian cloud tenants because this will place load on Atlassian servers and may impact customers.

The Acceptable Use Policy identifies your obligations to avoid overwhelming Atlassian infrastructure.

[Sunilkumar k]

@David Bakkers , we are building our own APP which makes REST API calls. Now this APP will be used by 22k+ users in our organization, while performing load testing on our APP, we are getting Http 429 errors.

 We don't intend to perform load testing against Atlassian Rest API, I understand it is not our job but load testing our APP is very important for us ! hence we are stuck not knowing the use case on how the rest Api calls are being rejected.

[Abhi Srivastava]

Facing the same issue, let me know if you get any help.