Adjust flood protection limits in Zaps

Written by Owner

Updated at August 20th, 2025

+ More

Available on plans:

Free

Professional

Team

Enterprise

You can enable a flood protection limit in each Zap that uses a polling trigger to determine how many new events can be sent through your Zap before your tasks are held. The flood protection override setting has a maximum limit of 1,500 events at once.

If an app sets a maximum number of records to return per poll, Zapier will not exceed that number, even if your flood protection setting is higher.
You may still experience rate limiting directly from the app even after you adjust the flood protection limit in Zapier.

To adjust the flood protection limit:

Open your Zap in the Zap editor.
In the left sidebar, click the advanced settings icon .
Click the Flood protection dropdown menu to expand it, then select a limit number.

Tip

If you’re on an Enterprise plan, you can also change the default settings for:

Your changes will affect the Zap only. Learn more about flood protection.

Adjust flood protection limits in Zaps

Contact Us

Related Articles