---
title: Timer Start node
description: Starts a named timer metric, which you can stop with a Timer Stop node.
component: auth-node-ref
version: latest
page_id: auth-node-ref::timer-start
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/auth-node-ref/latest/timer-start.html
keywords: ["Nodes & Trees", "Journeys", "Authentication"]
page_aliases: ["auth-node-timer-start.adoc"]
superseded_by: https://docs.pingidentity.com/auth-node-ref/latest/timer-start.html
section_ids:
  availability: Availability
  outcomes: Outcomes
  configuration: Configuration
---

# Timer Start node

Starts a named timer metric, which you can stop with a [Timer Stop node](timer-stop.html).

## Availability

| Product                               | Available? |
| ------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud       | Yes        |
| PingAM (self-managed)                 | Yes        |
| Ping Identity Platform (self-managed) | Yes        |

## Outcomes

Single outcome path.

## Configuration

| Property            | Usage                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Start Time Property | Specify a property name into which to store the current time.Specify the same value in any instances of the [Timer Stop node](timer-stop.html) that measure the time elapsed since evaluation passed through this node. |