Azure WebJob Command Timeout

Question

We are having issue with Azure Web Jobs. We created a C# console application, zipped it, and created the new Web Job. It\'s a c# console app that will constantly hit one of

Answer 1

For triggered WebJobs the way to increase idle timeout is using the app setting: WEBJOBS_IDLE_TIMEOUT. Set it to your desired timeout in seconds.

The error is confusing and only refers to idle timeout during deployment.

https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Web-jobs#configuration-settings

Answer 2

This seems to have solved my problem:

if (Counter % 25 == 0)
   Console.WriteLine("Heartbeat");

I guess you have to keep writing out to console to keep the JOB running.