Rate Limit

Multi-tenant rate limiting: identifies the caller by a tenant GUID header, enforces per-second/minute/hour/day windows (with per-tenant overrides from Admin → Tenants), and passes or routes to Limited — or, with a ◈ Queue attached, parks over-limit requests and releases them at pace.

Finding it in the library

Search the builder's node library for Rate Limit (it lives under Logic). A single click opens the in-editor docs panel shown here — description, ports, and every property, without leaving the canvas. Double-click (or drag) to add it to the workflow.

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Wired up in the builder

Rate Limit in a real, runnable flow — captured live from the Studio editor, exactly as it looks on your canvas. This is the same workflow used for the example input & output below.

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How it’s configured

The node’s Configure panel as it opens in the builder when you select the step — every setting laid out with real values. Click any field to edit it.

Config capture pending — regenerate with npm run shots:nodes. See the full property reference below.

Ports

Ports are the node’s contract with its neighbours. In the editor a port label renders bold when wired and italic when optional; ◈ ports accept attachment carriers rather than data wires.

How data flows through it

Rate Limit consumes the content of the incoming envelope — when it is fed directly by a trigger, the trigger’s wrapper is unwrapped at the node boundary so the node sees the actual data, not the metadata shell. Its output becomes the payload for the next node, while the envelope (trace ids, correlation, binary refs) rides along untouched. In the Runs view you always see the whole envelope for both sides of this node.

Expressions in the config

String-typed properties accept {{ }} expressions evaluated against the incoming item at run time — e.g. {{ $json.customer.email }}. On this node that’s tenantHeader, tenants, scope, queueName, queueBroker, queueToken, storageHost, storagePassword. JSON- and code-typed fields never interpolate — they are passed through literally.

Build it with AI

Every node in this reference is reachable through Flowdrome’s AI Copilot and the MCP tools — say what you want, and the graph surgery happens server-side. Node types resolve fuzzily, so the catalog label (Rate Limit) works as well as the exact type id (logic.rate-limit).

In the Copilot panel (or any connected AI):

add a rate limit node after the trigger

As a step in a create_chain_workflow call:

{"type":"Rate Limit","config":{}}

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:48170/mcp -H "content-type: application/json" -d '{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "1", "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "add_node", "arguments": { "workflowId": "<id>", "type": "Rate Limit" } } }'

Example input & output

Captured from a real test run of the workflow above — this is what you see in the run data panel after pressing Test workflow.

{
  "kind": "json",
  "contentType": "application/json",
  "payload": {
    "tenant": "smoke-tenant"
  },
  "body": {
    "tenant": "smoke-tenant"
  }
}

{
  "kind": "json",
  "contentType": "application/json",
  "payload": {
    "tenant": "smoke-tenant"
  },
  "body": {
    "tenant": "smoke-tenant"
  }
}

Property reference

Every setting, with its type and default — the same fields shown configured in the panel above.

Related nodes

The rest of the Logic group — the same folder you’d scan in the editor’s library.

• Filter / Condition Evaluates a condition against input and returns the pass/fail decision.
• IF Routes input to a true or false output based on a typed condition.
• Switch Routes input to one or more named outputs based on ordered conditions.
• Merge Combine the items of multiple inputs — append, combine by matching fields / position / all combinations, or ch
• Loop Over Items Iterate a list: run the inside body once per batch of items, then emit everything on done.
• Thread Pool Queue-fed concurrency frame: consume from the input queue, run the inside body on a pool of threads, publish e
• Wait Pauses the flow for a duration or until a timestamp, then passes the input through unchanged
• Wait for Approval Pauses the run until a human approves or rejects, then routes the input (plus the decision) out the matching p

This page is generated from the node registry by gen-node-docs.mjs on every site build — ports, properties, defaults and visibility rules cannot drift from the code. The screenshots and example data are captured from a live Flowdrome by npm run shots:nodes and npm run gen:examples.