Fallback backend on rate limiting request

[dudicoco]

Hi,

Is there a way to route traffic to a fallback backend if the request is rate limited (429 from rate limit service)?

[arkodg]

yah check out https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/docs/tasks/traffic/failover/

[dudicoco]

Thanks, I don't see how this would work for the rate limit use case though, it's a different scenario.