diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index bd4bbfb8..d3466127 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // @ts-ignore
 import BottleneckLight from "bottleneck/light";
 import { Octokit } from "@octokit/core";
-
+import { OctokitThrottlingOptions } from "./types";
 import { VERSION } from "./version";
 
 import { wrapRequest } from "./wrap-request";
@@ -45,7 +45,10 @@ const createGroups = function (Bottleneck, common) {
   });
 };
 
-export function throttling(octokit: Octokit, octokitOptions = {}) {
+export function throttling(
+  octokit: Octokit,
+  octokitOptions: OctokitThrottlingOptions
+) {
   const {
     enabled = true,
     Bottleneck = BottleneckLight,
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f39c79c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import { OctokitOptions } from "@octokit/core/dist-types/types.d";
+import { Octokit } from "@octokit/core";
+
+type LimitHandler = (
+  retryAfter: number,
+  options: OctokitThrottlingOptions,
+  octokit: Octokit
+) => void;
+
+export interface ThrottlingOptions extends OctokitOptions {
+  throttle: {
+    enabled?: boolean;
+    Bottleneck?: any;
+    id?: string;
+    timeout?: number;
+    connection?: any;
+    onAbuseLimit: LimitHandler;
+    onRateLimit: LimitHandler;
+  };
+}
+
+export type OctokitThrottlingOptions = OctokitOptions | ThrottlingOptions;