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Quotas and limits

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There are various quotas and limits that apply to IoT Central applications. IoT Central applications internally use multiple Azure services such as IoT Hub and the Device Provisioning Service (DPS), and these services also have quotas and limits. Where relevant, quotas and limits in the underlying services are called out in this article.

Devices

Item Quota or limit
Number of devices in an application 200,000
Number of IoT Central simulated devices in an application 100

Telemetry

Item Quota or limit Notes
Number of messages per second per application 200 Individual devices can temporarily send up to 10 messages per second.
Maximum size of a device-to-cloud message 256 KB The IoT Hub service sets this value.
Maximum size of a cloud-to-device message 64 KB The IoT Hub service sets this value.

Property updates

Item Quota or limit Notes
Number of property updates per second 100 This limit is a soft limit. IoT Central autoscales the application as needed1.
Properties Maximum size of desired properties and reported properties sections are 32 KB each. Maximum size of tags section is 8 KB. Maximum size of each individual property in every section is 4 KB. The IoT Hub service sets these values.

Commands

Item Quota or limit Notes
Number of command executions per second 20 This limit is a soft limit. IoT Central autoscales the application as needed1.

REST API calls

Item Quota or limit
Query API requests per second 1
Other API requests per second 20

Storage

Item Quota or limit Notes
Maximum data retention in days 7 If you need to keep data for longer, use data export to export it to external storage.

Data export

Item Quota or limit Notes
Number of data export jobs 10 If you need to exceed this limit, contact support to discuss increasing it for your application.
Number of data export destinations 10 If you need to exceed this limit, contact support to discuss increasing it for your application.
Number of data export destinations per job 10 If you need to exceed this limit, contact support to discuss increasing it for your application.
Number of filters and enrichments per data export job 10 If you need to exceed this limit, contact support to discuss increasing it for your application.

For large volumes of export data, you may experience up to 60 seconds of latency. Typically, the latency is much lower than this.

Device modeling

Item Quota or limit Notes
Number of device templates in an application 1,000 For performance reasons, you shouldn't exceed this limit.
Number of capabilities in a device template 300 For performance reasons, you shouldn't exceed this limit.

Device groups

Item Quota or limit Notes
Number of device groups in an application 500 For performance reasons, you shouldn't exceed this limit.
Number of filters in a device group 100 For performance reasons, you shouldn't exceed this limit.

Device provisioning

Item Quota or limit Notes
Number of devices registrations per minute 200 The underlying DPS instance sets this quota.

Rules

Item Quota or limit Notes
Number of rules in an application 50 This quota is fixed and can't be changed.
Number of actions in a rule 5 This quota is fixed and can't be changed.
Number of alerts for an email action One alert every minute per rule This quota is fixed and can't be changed.
Number of alerts for a webhook action One alert every 10 seconds per action This quota is fixed and can't be changed.
Number of alerts for a Power Automate action One alert every 10 seconds per action This quota is fixed and can't be changed.
Number of alerts for an Azure Logic App action One alert every 10 seconds per action This quota is fixed and can't be changed.
Number of alerts for an Azure Monitor Group action One alert every 10 seconds per action This quota is fixed and can't be changed.

Jobs

Item Quota or limit Notes
Number of concurrent job executions 5 For performance reasons, you shouldn't exceed this limit.

Users, roles, and organizations

Item Quota or limit Notes
Maximum user role assignments per application 200 This limit isn't the same as the number of users per application.
Maximum roles per application 50 This limit includes the default application and organization roles.
Maximum organizations per application 200
Maximum organization hierarchy depth 5

1 IoT Central doesn't limit the amount of device-to-cloud, cloud-to-device, property, or command traffic. It has variable throttles based on the application's load profile. If your application starts sending more traffic, IoT Central autoscales to best suit the load profile. You might notice throttling messages for a short period of time until IoT Central completes the autoscale process.

Next steps

Now that you've learned about the quotas and limits that apply to Azure IoT Central, the suggested next step is to learn about Azure IoT Central architecture.