Rate limit with sleep

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I have read over many threads in here that say to rate limit your scenarios you can use the tool sleep, adding a sleep of one second will only allow 1 bundle per second to come out at a time.

In my current scenario it is not behaving like this.
I have the incoming webhooks limited to 10 per second, and a sleep module of 5 seconds.

What happens is all 10 bundles hit the sleep at the same time, they all wait 5 seconds, then they all come out the other end at the same rate they entered and finish at the same time.

Am I missing something?

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Yes I was missing something, webhooks are processed in parallel so sleep module does indeed behave differently, using sequential processing rate limits to about 1 per 5 seconds so you dont need to use sleep.

The only issue I am not sure about is the scenario being paused if there is a incomplete execution, I am using breaks with retries on the sheets modules so it should fix itself?

“In the case of the webhook scenarios, execute them sequentially in order to reduce the number of scenario executions running at the same time.”

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