As an admin, I would a way to limit the number of requests that reach Bitbucket Server to prevent the performance to be impacted by a significant number of requests

Problem Definition

A high number of REST API requests can potentially have an impact on the overall performance of Bitbucket.

Suggested Solution

Introduced a rate limit or a throttling mechanism to avoid any impact on performance.

Workaround

Implement a rate limit on the load balancer in front of Bitbucket.