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  • New Features

    • Added an option to exclude subscription operations from rate limiting.
    • Configure this behavior through YAML or the RATE_LIMIT_EXCLUDE_SUBSCRIPTIONS environment variable.
    • The option is disabled by default; queries and mutations remain rate limited.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration examples and schema documentation.
    • Added a warning about potential denial-of-service risks when subscription rate limiting is disabled.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for subscription behavior over WebSocket and SSE connections.

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Adds rate_limit.exclude_subscriptions, defaulting to false. When enabled, subscription operations bypass rate limiting while queries and mutations remain limited. The change covers WebSocket and SSE flows, configuration, tests, and documentation.

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Subscription rate-limit exclusion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rate-limit configuration contract
router/pkg/config/config.go, router/pkg/config/config.schema.json, router/pkg/config/testdata/*, router/pkg/config/fixtures/full.yaml, docs-website/router/configuration.mdx
Adds the ExcludeSubscriptions setting, YAML and environment-variable bindings, schema metadata, configuration fixtures, defaults, and documentation.
Operation-aware rate-limit setup
router/core/graphql_handler.go, router/core/websocket.go
Passes the GraphQL operation type to rate-limit setup. Subscription operations bypass limiting when ExcludeSubscriptions is enabled.
Subscription transport validation
router-tests/security/ratelimit_test.go
Tests subscription and query rate-limit behavior over WebSocket and SSE with subscription exclusion enabled and disabled.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4998f

This change allows subscriptions to bypass rate limiting, but an SSE test can still exceed its 30-second deadline because it performs several sequential waits. The PR should address or explicitly accept this test reliability risk before merging.

Possibly related PRs

  • wundergraph/cosmo#2486: Both changes modify subscription handling in the GraphQL handler and WebSocket code. This PR focuses on rate-limit exclusion, while the related PR changes subscription transport behavior.
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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 62.86%. Comparing base (5f85878) to head (c830e13).
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LGTM, just a minor nit

Comment thread demo/pkg/subgraphs/courses/generated/mapping.json
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router-tests/security/ratelimit_test.go (1)

1262-1283: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Align the SSE context with the synchronization timeouts.

Line 1262 starts a 30-second context. Lines 1276-1277 can consume two separate 15-second waits. Line 1283 can then consume another 15-second wait before Line 1285 checks ctx.Done().

On a slow or stalled run, the test can exceed the intended deadline and fail late. Use one shared remaining deadline for setup and event publication, or increase the context deadline to cover the configured waits.

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In `@router-tests/security/ratelimit_test.go` around lines 1262 - 1283, Align the
context created for GraphQLSubscriptionOverSSE with the cumulative
synchronization and publication timeouts in this test. Update the setup around
WaitForSubscriptionCount, WaitForTriggerCount, and NATSPublishUntilReceived so
the shared deadline covers all configured waits, either by deriving one
remaining deadline or extending the context timeout sufficiently; preserve the
existing timeout checks and event flow.
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In `@router-tests/security/ratelimit_test.go`:
- Around line 1262-1283: Align the context created for
GraphQLSubscriptionOverSSE with the cumulative synchronization and publication
timeouts in this test. Update the setup around WaitForSubscriptionCount,
WaitForTriggerCount, and NATSPublishUntilReceived so the shared deadline covers
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