From 550caa66658090f1d0958749c44d30c3b1355f8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: an_ifrah24 <137814364+ifrah-ashraf@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:05:57 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: added conditional check for the unkey logger to reduce
 the number of logs (#25858)

---
 packages/lib/rateLimit.ts | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/lib/rateLimit.ts b/packages/lib/rateLimit.ts
index 5a0723774f..ebdc90460a 100644
--- a/packages/lib/rateLimit.ts
+++ b/packages/lib/rateLimit.ts
@@ -28,11 +28,16 @@ export type RateLimitHelper = {
 
 export const API_KEY_RATE_LIMIT = 30;
 
+let warned = false;
+
 export function rateLimiter() {
   const { UNKEY_ROOT_KEY } = process.env;
 
   if (!UNKEY_ROOT_KEY) {
-    log.warn("Disabled because the UNKEY_ROOT_KEY environment variable was not found.");
+    if (!warned) {
+      log.warn("Disabled because the UNKEY_ROOT_KEY environment variable was not found.");
+      warned = true;
+    }
     return () => ({ success: true, limit: 10, remaining: 999, reset: 0 } as RatelimitResponse);
   }
   const timeout = {