Sleep

I/O and network
Sleep
Duration (ms) 1000

Description

Pauses execution for the given number of milliseconds before emitting the execution pin.

When to use

Use Sleep to introduce a deliberate delay in an execution flow — for example, throttling requests inside a loop, waiting for a remote system to process a job, or rate-limiting API calls. Place it between two nodes in the execution chain and set duration in milliseconds. For recurring timed triggers, use Simple schedule or Cron schedule instead.

Pins

Input pins

Pin Type Default Notes
Duration (ms) integer 1000 How long to pause in milliseconds. 1000 = 1 second.

Execution pins

Pin Direction
In Input
Out Output

Example

Poll an API three times with a 2-second pause between each call. Set First index to 1 and Last index to 3 on For loop. On the Loop body execution output, wire HTTP request followed by Sleep (Duration (ms) set to 2000), then Log message. Each iteration pauses for 2 seconds after the request before the log step runs.

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