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What takes so long?

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Posted on by in2217 143

Dear community,

 

we had a couple of failures recently, due to timeout. Flow took too long to respond.

Apparently offender is this scope part: it has two Compose steps, each run OK, pretty fast.

But the Scope itself took whole 2 min.

 

Why is that and what can be done about it, besides increasing the timeout?

flow_running_too_long.jpg

 

Thank you,

Inna

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    ChristianAbata 8,951 Most Valuable Professional on at

    hi @in2217  scope is a separated space, like a group so sometimes  the number of seconds are malformed. See your flow runs actually in 7s because the compose inside has 5 and 2 seconds. don't worry about the seconds of scope

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    beyondthebox 28 on at

    Its ok if its a malformed value provided the flow did not actually take 2 minutes to complete the scope. To me this is a  huge issue as you cannot accurately assess issues. I have a flow that sends 14 emails in 5 min. The flow continues to run for 12 min. There are no errors in the flow and the output is 100% what was expected. Once the flow reaches about 12 min it end and then the run execution says it was not 5 min. So I waited 12 min for it to complete even though it was actually done. Hence you cannot just dismiss the timing as malformed if it matches the actual time to run.

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