Avoid Workflows With Too Many Timer Activities

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Impact Area

Performance

Severity

High for over 10

Affected Element

Workflow

Rule ID #

SN-0163

Impact #

Heavy use of timer activities in workflows is likely to cause missed SLAs. It’s recommended to have less than 10. 

Remediation #

Reduce timer activities to the absolutely necessary minimum.

Rule threshold #

What is this?

Rule threshold is an issue trigger type. The threshold value is a single point or two points at which a corresponding issue is created. The threshold value can be defined as greater than or less or equal than.

Some rules can be customized by editing their threshold conditions, including removing or editing original thresholds, adding new thresholds, as well as adding corresponding severity and time to fix. 

This rule has the following default rule threshold:

Rule threshold #

What is this?

Rule threshold is an issue trigger type. The threshold value is a single point or two points at which a corresponding issue is created. The threshold value can be defined as greater than or less or equal than.

Some rules can be customized by editing their threshold conditions, including removing or editing original thresholds, adding new thresholds, as well as adding corresponding severity and time to fix. 

This rule has the following default rule threshold for the element Number of timer activities in a workflow

Greater than Less or equal than Severity Time to fix
10 Null Low 50 min

Time to fix #

50 min

Updated on March 21, 2025