Due to 2026 point-based rate limits I wanted to inspect API usage of our Forge apps:
In Developer Console, I go to Monitor API metrics and see some nice diagrams. But I was surprised to see low API usage. To analyse which API requests are considered here, I triggered some backend requests (via issue-event webhooks), and some frontend request (via @forge/bridge’s requestJira). Results:
- Backend requests are considered
- Frontend requests are not considered
Is that intended? If yes, then I find that to be troublesome because that skews the numbers, especially when it comes to Rate Limiting: Judging from these numbers it looks like the app is not at risk of reaching Rate-Limits, but Rate-Limits also apply to frontend requests (I checked the relevant response header x-ratelimit-remaining). So for Rate-Limits those numbers are not useful.
Our ask: Make frontend requests also show in Monitor API metrics. That way we have proper numbers to judge Rate-Limit usage.
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