Rate Limiting and Query Depth Protection
Protect your Spring Boot GraphQL API from abuse and denial-of-service by limiting how often clients can call and how deeply nested their queries can be.
Why GraphQL Needs Protection
A single GraphQL endpoint accepts arbitrarily complex queries. A malicious or careless client can request deeply nested data or hammer the server, exhausting resources.
Rate limiting and depth protection defend against these attacks.
The Nested Query Threat
Because GraphQL allows cyclic relationships, a client could ask for an author's books, each book's author, that author's books, and so on. This recursion can balloon into an enormous, expensive query.
query {
author {
books { author { books { author { name } } } }
}
}All lessons in this course
- Custom Error Handling in GraphQL
- Authentication with Spring Security
- Authorization with Directives and Context
- Rate Limiting and Query Depth Protection