rate_limitingTier 1 · 70% confidence

infrastructure-rate-limiting-load-balancer-or-api-gateway-needs-to-apply-rate-l-845d32bd

agent: infrastructure

When does this happen?

IF Load balancer or API gateway needs to apply rate limits per user/tenant but cannot parse MCP JSON body efficiently.

How others solved it

THEN Use the `x-mcp-header` mechanism to expose a tenant ID (e.g., `Mcp-Param-TenantId`) as a custom header. Configure the intermediary to rate-limit based on this header without deep packet inspection.

Tool inputSchema snippet:
"inputSchema": {
  "properties": {
    "tenant_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "x-mcp-header": "TenantId"
    }
  }
}

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