title: Azure DocumentDB Throttled Requests
body: <p>I have a document db database on azure. I have a particularly heavy query that happens when I archive a user record and all of their data.</p>
  
  <p>I was on the S1 plan and would get an exception that indicated I was hitting the limit of RU/s. The S1 plan has 250.</p>
  
  <p>I decided to switch to the Standard plan that lets you set the RU/s and pay for it.</p>
  
  <p>I set it to 500 RU/s.</p>
  
  <p>I did the same query and went back and looked at the monitoring chart.</p>
  
  <p>At the time I did this latest query test it said I did 226 requests and 10 were throttled.</p>
  
  <p>Why is that? I set it to 500 RU/s. The query had failed, by the way.</p>