Azure Web App – Request Timeout Issue- 500 Error

Recently I was facing a issue with request time out in a web app in azure app services. It was a synchronous file upload which take more than 4 seconds. (Yes, off-course, synchronous way is not the optimum solution)

I investigated this issue and I found that Azure App services (Web app) has default 230 seconds of timeout. If a request take more than this time it will be a 500 Error. But still this request is allowed to continue in the background in server.

So we should keep this in mind and we should design our applications in a reactive way.

So if you are getting a request timeout in Azure web app this could be the issue.

More readings:

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/169385-web-apps/suggestions/36572656-make-web-app-timeout-of-230-seconds-configurable

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/560dc2a9-43e1-4c68-830c-6e1defe2f72d/azure-web-app-request-timeout-issue?forum=WAVirtualMachinesforWindows

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/faq-availability-performance-application-issues#why-does-my-request-time-out-after-230-seconds

https://www.edureka.co/community/22010/azure-asp-net-webapp-the-request-timed-out