---
title: Real-time analytics
summary: >-
  The real-time analytics API offers a standardized set of data about traffic
  received by a specified service in one-second time periods up to the last
  complete second.
url: https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/metrics-stats/realtime
---

> **IMPORTANT:** Unlike other Fastly APIs, the base URL for Real-time analytics is `https://rt.fastly.com`.

<CollectionDescription name="realtime" />

## Rate limiting

The real-time analytics API is rate limited internally. However, it is also cached behind Fastly with an expiration time of 1s. Under normal use there should be no reason for customers to hit that rate limit.


<Collection name="realtime" />