Timeouts

Task timeouts allow you to limit the amount of time that a task will run before it is automatically cancelled. This can be useful to prevent "run-away" tasks from consuming excessive resources.

By default, all standard-runtime tasks time out after 1 hour, but this can be extended up to a maximum of 12 hours. The workflow runtime allows runs to execute for much longer—up to 60 days—but it does not yet support configuring a lower timeout.

In addition to timeouts, runs can be explicitly cancelled to stop it from completing:

When a run times out or is manually cancelled, it will be issued a SIGTERM and given 10 seconds to gracefully shut down. If the run has not yet exited after 10 seconds, then the run will be sent a SIGKILL.

Tasks can gracefully handle cancellation by listening for SIGTERM signals and performing any relevant cleanup before exiting on their own.

In the case where a run is cancelled before it is started, the run will be immediately marked as cancelled and the behavior above will not apply.

Timeouts are represented in seconds since a task was started.

typescript
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export default airplane.task(
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  {
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    slug: "my_task",
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    timeout: 600,
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  },
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  async () => {...}
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);

python
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@airplane.task(
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    timeout=60,
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)
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def my_task():
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    pass

yaml
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timeout: 600