'Kill job' feature based on run length condition - is this possible?

Question

Does such a feature exist?

I am not a server admin, but I have an interest in this topic and would like to know more. I looked at previous stuff on related topics and it seems there's a global setting on the server side where you can set a maximum runtime for all workflows executed in the gallery (Solved: Gallery Workflow Runtime Limits - Alteryx Community)

But is there no way to restrict runtime for specific jobs? Or is it just that I'm unaware of how to do this? Let's say I know my workflow is supposed to take 10 seconds to run, and sometimes (when something is going wrong) it takes 20 minutes, and I want to kill the job if it's taken a minute to run - is there some way to do this? (If not, are there any plans to implement something like this?)

I know that it is possible in the designer to auto-abort jobs running in Designer based on conditions such as record count or formula expressions and I use those options, but there are lots of cases those kinds of checks can't handle and runtime problems is a major one.

MattLi · Answer

mate, I am on same boat here. a tool which can capture workflow runtime will 100% be helpful, as there is always issues you cannot expect and people cannot be in workplace 24/7 to optimize and perfect all possible results.

mbarone · Answer

Unfortunately there is not "workflow based" or "designer based" setting for this.

BYJE · Answer

Obviously I'm looking into the performance of my (many) server runs, and obviously I'm evaluating whether the workflows can be improved. Yeah, you can take down a workflow that's performing poorly and identify why it's performing poorly. Ideally you optimize all you can during development. But I don't want a flow I'm scheduling to run hourly to take 20 minutes per run for two weeks while I'm on vacation because of some new database connection issue. For example. I'd want to kill it and send an email to someone who's not on vacation, so that it can be fixed and/or looked into. This process should be automated too.