Adding Timeouts

Features described in this document have been deprecated as of the December 2025 release of both the Testkube Control Plane and the Open Source Agent, Read More.

Dashboard
CLI
Custom Resource

Click on a Test > Settings > General > Timeout:

How to setup Test Timeout in Dashboard

You can use the --timeout with the number of second in all commands related to a test.

testkube update test --name my-test --timeout 10

Test updated testkube / curl 🥇

Add the following field to your Test CRD:

executionRequest:
  activeDeadlineSeconds: 10

A full CRD example here:

apiVersion: tests.testkube.io/v3
kind: Test
metadata:
  name: my-test
  namespace: testkube
  labels:
    executor: curl-executor
    test-type: curl-test
spec:
  type: curl/test
  content:
    executionRequest:
      activeDeadlineSeconds: 50
    type: string
    repository:
    data: "{\n  \"command\": [\n    \"curl\",\n    \"https://reqbin.com/echo/get/json\",\n    \"-H\",\n    \"'Accept: application/json'\"\n  ],\n  \"expected_status\": \"200\",\n  \"expected_body\": \"{\\\"success\\\":\\\"true\\\"}\"\n}"