Quick question about WEM API 429s during bulk schedule creation

Quick question about the Workforce Engagement Management APIs. Running a load test to bulk-create schedules via /api/v2/wem/schedules using JMeter 5.6. The system hits 429 errors after 200 concurrent requests, despite setting headers for application/json.

  1. Thread group set to 500 users.
  2. Ramp-up time 10 seconds.
  3. No constant timer added.

Is there a specific rate limit for WEM endpoints that differs from standard analytics? Need to adjust the JMeter script to avoid throttling.

If I remember correctly, WEM endpoints have a hard cap of 200 req/min per tenant, so you’re hitting that immediately. Check the Retry-After header in the 429 response and add a simple constant timer to your JMeter thread group to space out requests. WEM Rate Limits

The simplest way to resolve this is…

  • implement exponential backoff in your deployment pipeline
  • use Terraform depends_on to serialize schedule creation
  • avoid raw JMeter spikes against WEM endpoints

WEM APIs throttle aggressively. Let the IaC provider handle retries instead of manual header tweaks.