---
title: Global Rules
keywords:
  - API Gateway
  - Apache APISIX
  - Global Rules
description: This article describes how to use global rules.
---

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## Description

A [Plugin](./plugin.md) configuration can be bound directly to a [Route](./route.md), a [Service](./service.md) or a [Consumer](./consumer.md). But what if we want a Plugin to work on all requests? This is where we register a global Plugin with Global Rule.

Compared with the plugin configuration in Route, Service, Plugin Config, and Consumer, the plugin in the Global Rules is always executed first.

## Example

The example below shows how you can use the `limit-count` Plugin on all requests:

:::note
You can fetch the `admin_key` from `config.yaml` and save to an environment variable with the following command:

```bash
admin_key=$(yq '.deployment.admin.admin_key[0].key' conf/config.yaml | sed 's/"//g')
```

:::

```shell
curl -X PUT \
  http://{apisix_listen_address}/apisix/admin/global_rules/1 \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key" \
  -d '{
        "plugins": {
            "limit-count": {
                "time_window": 60,
                "policy": "local",
                "count": 2,
                "key": "remote_addr",
                "rejected_code": 503
            }
        }
    }'
```

You can also list all the Global rules by making this request with the Admin API:

```shell
curl http://{apisix_listen_address}/apisix/admin/global_rules -H "X-API-KEY: $admin_key"
```