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title: Quotas Overview
description: Quotas set per-second rate limits on OpenObserve API requests like List, Get, Create, Update, and Delete, applied at the organization level or per role.
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Quotas in OpenObserve are rate limiting mechanisms that let you control how many API requests users can make per second. You can use Quotas to define request-per-second (Req/s) limits for API operations such as **List**, **Get**, **Create**, **Update**, and **Delete**. 
These limits can be applied in two ways, at org-level and at role-level.

**Learn more:**

- [Quotas](quotas.md)
- [How Quotas Work](how-quotas-work.md)