Abstract: Processing services are often provisioned by defining and adjusting the performance capabilities of individual servers, and in multitenancy scenarios, servers may allocate computational resources to ensure that a first client workload does not impact a second client workload. However, a reduced performance capability of a server may create a processing jam with respect to an upstream server of the process path of the workload, where the processing rate mismatch creates a risk of failing to fulfill the performance guarantee for the workload. Instead, the downstream server may monitor and compare its performance capability with the performance guarantee. If a performance guarantee failure risk arises, the server may transmit a performance capability alert to the upstream server, which may rate-limit the processing of the workload. Rate-limiting by the first server in the server path may limit workload intake to a volume for which the process path can fulfill the performance guarantee.