---
title: NewRateLimiter
summary: NewRateLimiter creates a new rate limiter.
url: https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/compute/sdks/go/compute-sdk-go/erl/fn.NewRateLimiter/
---

**Kind:** Function  
**Module:** [erl](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/compute/sdks/go/compute-sdk-go/erl/)  
**Package:** compute-sdk-go v1.11.0  
**Source:** https://github.com/fastly/compute-sdk-go/blob/d6bf71b04516ed72d6018cab6fff701a865f86e5/erl/erl.go#L213

```go
func NewRateLimiter(rc *RateCounter, pb *PenaltyBox) *RateLimiter
```

NewRateLimiter creates a new rate limiter.

**Parameters**

- `rc`: `*RateCounter`
- `pb`: `*PenaltyBox`

**Returns**

`*RateLimiter`