Datastore key unexpectedly throttling

[RemiHiddoGames]

Certain keys in our datastores are throttled when we run admin events for our game. The key this happens most consistently for is the “LimitedCosmic17” key (as seen below). We’ve taken care to ensure that any player can only request once every 12 seconds (5 requests per minute), which should be well under the dynamic quota per key (and in general, as seen below).

Despite this, as soon as we start an admin event (and we experience a large influx of players), we throttle almost immediately.

Expected behavior

We expect that, this limit of 5 requests per minute per players ought to be sufficient, which it is during regular gameplay, but it fails during admin abuses.

[buffyreal123]

The error message suggests that you hit the single key throughput limit: https://create.roblox.com/docs/en-us/cloud-services/data-stores/error-codes-and-limits#throughput-limits.

My recommendation here would be to shard the key and consider using Memory Stores Hash Map, which has higher single key limit.

I am also curious why you need to read this key for every player. (feel free to share via DM).