diff --git a/conf/server-base.conf b/conf/server-base.conf
index 697226f9f..9284fe1cf 100644
--- a/conf/server-base.conf
+++ b/conf/server-base.conf
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ proxy_set_header Transfer-Encoding $http_transfer_encoding;
 location / {
     proxy_pass   http://web_app_server;
 
-    limit_req zone=webapp burst=10 nodelay;
+    #limit_req zone=webapp burst=10 nodelay;
 }
 
 location /realtime {
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ location /v1/ {
 
     client_max_body_size 20G;
 
-    limit_req zone=api burst=5 nodelay;
+    #limit_req zone=api burst=5 nodelay;
 }
 
 location /c1/ {
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ location /c1/ {
     proxy_read_timeout 2000;
     proxy_temp_path /var/log/nginx/proxy_temp 1 2;
 
-    limit_req zone=api burst=5 nodelay;
+    #limit_req zone=api burst=5 nodelay;
 }
 
 location /static/ {
diff --git a/util/queuemetrics.py b/util/queuemetrics.py
index c1ca8c585..017048de4 100644
--- a/util/queuemetrics.py
+++ b/util/queuemetrics.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ class NullReporter(object):
 
 
 class QueueingCloudWatchReporter(object):
+  """ QueueingCloudWatchReporter reports metrics to the "SendToCloudWatch" process """
   def __init__(self, request_queue, namespace, need_capacity_name, build_percent_name):
     self._namespace = namespace
     self._need_capacity_name = need_capacity_name
@@ -35,6 +36,8 @@ class QueueingCloudWatchReporter(object):
 
 
 class SendToCloudWatch(Process):
+  """ SendToCloudWatch loops indefinitely and pulls metrics off of a queue then sends it to
+  CloudWatch. """
   def __init__(self, request_queue, aws_access_key, aws_secret_key):
     Process.__init__(self)
     self._aws_access_key = aws_access_key
@@ -43,12 +46,15 @@ class SendToCloudWatch(Process):
     self.daemon = True
 
   def run(self):
-    logger.debug('Starting cloudwatch sender process.')
+    logger.debug('Starting CloudWatch sender process.')
     connection = boto.connect_cloudwatch(self._aws_access_key, self._aws_secret_key)
     while True:
       put_metric_args, kwargs = self._put_metrics_queue.get()
-      logger.debug('Got queued put metrics reqeust.')
-      connection.put_metric_data(*put_metric_args, **kwargs)
+      logger.debug('Got queued put metrics request.')
+      try:
+        connection.put_metric_data(*put_metric_args, **kwargs)
+      except:
+        logger.exception('Writing to CloudWatch failed')
 
 
 class QueueMetrics(object):