My name is Soumitra Dutta, Oxford based entrepreneur & photographer. I’m trying to improve the performance of my workflows in n8n, but some of them are running slower than I expected.
Do you have any suggestions or best practices for optimizing workflow execution? For example, tips on node configuration, managing data, or improving trigger performance would be really helpful.
Regards
Soumitra Dutta
Few quick wins for workflow performance: (1) if you’re making multiple API calls, batch them using the HTTP Request node’s batch option — cuts round trips significantly. (2) for heavy data processing, use the Function node with native JS instead of Code node — it’s faster. (3) on polling triggers, increasing the interval (say 30s instead of 5s) cuts execution overhead if you can tolerate slight delays. What type of workflows are we talking? Email, API integrations, database operations? Context helps narrow down the bottleneck.
Hi @soumitradutta26 for your workflows honestly it depends on what kind of operations you are performing, also just get yourself a high end VPS or a better Cloud plan and you would never face that kinda issue, also for optimization just do not pass data which is of no use dump it using aggregate or split and only pass down the one you want and that is really it.