How many flow nodes can a single process instance hold?

[30carterjack]

Hi all,

I’ve got a process instance that will repeatedly check in with a service and take a certain action if a specific condition is met. Outside of the fact this probably should be a job worker, is there any documentation of how many flow nodes a single process instance can hold before experiencing any issues?

Thanks!

[zee-bot]

There’s no explicit hard limit on flow nodes per process instance, but performance considerations exist around large instances and repeated processing patterns. I found the following relevant resources:

• Sizing your environment
• Using Large Multi-Instance - Zeebe Chaos
• Using flow control to handle uncontrolled process loops - Zeebe Chaos
• Versioning process definitions - Dealing with long running processes
• Variables documentation

Does this help? If not, can anyone from the community jump in?

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