Workflows
Job timeout
Quick answer
A job timeout is the maximum duration a job may run before GitHub cancels it, defaulting to six hours.
A job timeout is the maximum duration a job may run before GitHub cancels it, defaulting to six hours.
Why it matters
The default is far too generous. A hung job silently burning six hours of runner time is a bill nobody budgeted for; set timeout-minutes on every job.
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Related
Artifact retentionArtifact retention is the period GitHub keeps workflow artifacts before deleting them, defaulting to 90 days and configurable per repository or per upload.Build matrixA build matrix is a GitHub Actions feature that expands one job definition into many parallel jobs across combinations of variables such as OS and language version.Composite actionA composite action bundles several workflow steps into a single reusable action defined in YAML, without needing JavaScript or a container.Concurrency groupA concurrency group is a named lock that limits how many workflow runs matching that name can be in progress at once.