feat: add quotas (#4779)

adds possibilities to cap authenticated requests and execution seconds of actions on a defined intervall

e2e/cypress/support/api/instances.ts

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+import { SystemAPI } from './types';
+
+export function instanceUnderTest(api: SystemAPI): Cypress.Chainable<string> {
+  return cy
+    .request({
+      method: 'POST',
+      url: `${api.baseURL}/instances/_search`,
+      auth: {
+        bearer: api.token,
+      },
+    })
+    .then((res) => {
+      const instances = <Array<any>>res.body.result;
+      expect(instances.length).to.equal(
+        1,
+        'instanceUnderTest just supports running against an API with exactly one instance, yet',
+      );
+      return instances[0].id;
+    });
+}
+
+export function getInstance(api: SystemAPI, instanceId: string, failOnStatusCode = true) {
+  return cy.request({
+    method: 'GET',
+    url: `${api.baseURL}/instances/${instanceId}`,
+    auth: {
+      bearer: api.token,
+    },
+    failOnStatusCode: failOnStatusCode,
+  });
+}