# Loops and limitations

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/loops-and-limitations/83408>\
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**Created:** [July 24, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/loops-and-limitations/83408 "2025-07-24T05:29:07Z")\
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Each run is one update, and individual steps may use additional updates.

If you look at an execution run log, you can calculate exactly how many updates were used.

- any step that has a small lightning bolt next to it will incur updates
- the numbers next to each step indicate how many times that step was run

Below is an example:

 ![CleanShot 2025-07-24 at 17.43.01@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/2/5/254e718d0dcd206a039e2f090c75ea686e22884d.jpeg)

In the above example, a total of 5 updates were used.

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