Increase request timeout with restify

Question

I have created a Microsoft Teams notification bot with node and restify. This bot has been deployed as a Web App on Azure. The request to send a notification can take from 1 up to 4 minutes sometimes, and when it is more than 3 minutes I get as response a timeout (even tho after 1 minute I still receive the notification). We are working on optimizing that making it way faster, but meanwhile I need an hotfix and increase the request timeout. How can I do that with restify? Or how to do that in Azure as a Web App?

This is what I have tried so far:

const server = restify.createServer();

// Set request and connection timeouts
server.server.setTimeout(10 * 60 * 1000); // 10 minutes
server.server.timeout = 10 * 60 * 1000; // 10 minutes
server.server.keepAliveTimeout = 10 * 60 * 1000; // 10 minutes

but this didn't worked. From Azure I just set to keep the connection alive because I couldn't find any way to do that (and nothing changed at all).

Answer 1

I have taken reference from document to configure timeout in the app using NodeJs.

Code Snippet to set the timeout to 5 Minutes:

const server = restify.createServer();
server.timeout = 300000;
server.use(restify.plugins.bodyParser());
server.listen(process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978, () => {
  console.log(`\nApp Started, ${server.name} listening to ${server.url}`);
});

Also add the application setting in the App Service=>Environment Variables:

I have created Microsoft Teams notification bot with NodeJs and Restify using Visual Studio code.

• Debugging the chatbot locally.

[nodemon] starting `node --inspect=9239 ./src/index.js`
Debugger listening on ws://127.0.0.1:9239/51492aXXXXXe92c14e1
For help, see: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/inspector
Debugger attached.
(node:8204) [DEP0111] DeprecationWarning: Access to process.binding('http_parser') is deprecated.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)

App Started, restify listening to http://[::]:3978

• Notification bot app is uploaded into Teams client.

• Invoke an event to trigger a notification with the command:

Invoke-Webrequest -Method POST -URI https://localhost:3978/api/notification

• Deployed the app to Azure:

Navigate to Azure Bot=>Channels=>Microsoft Teams, click on Open in Teams, redirects to the notification bot app uploaded into Teams client.

• Invoking an event to trigger a notification with the command:

Invoke-Webrequest -Method POST -URI https://notification9c6356.azurewebsites.net/api/notification