Timeouts
Request timeouts Timeout A time limit for how long agentgateway will wait for a response from a backend before considering the request failed. Timeouts can be configured at the request or backend level. allow returning an error for requests that take too long to complete.
Route Timeouts
You can configure two types of timeouts on a route.
| Timeout | Description |
|---|---|
requestTimeout | The time from the start of an incoming request, until the end of the response headers is received. Note if there are retries, this includes the total time across retries. |
backendRequestTimeout | The time from the start of a request to a backend, until the end of the response headers are completed. Note this is per-request, so with retries this is a per-retry timeout. |
For example:
timeout:
requestTimeout: 1sBackend Timeouts
In addition to route level timeouts, you can configure per-backend timeouts within the backend configuration section.
| Timeout | Description |
|---|---|
requestTimeout | The time from the start of an HTTP request to a backend until the response headers are completed. |
connectTimeout | The time from the start of a TCP connection to a backend until the connection is established. |
http:
requestTimeout: 1s
tcp:
connectTimeout: 10s