I’ll introduce how to prevent waste by specifying timeout-minutes in GitHub Actions Workflow.

Background: The job running on runner GitHub Actions n has exceeded the maximum execution time of 360 minutes.

A maximum 6-hour timeout occurred in GitHub Actions, resulting in the following error:

The job running on runner GitHub Actions 4 has exceeded the maximum execution time of 360 minutes.

Solution: Use timeout-minutes

jobs:
  your-job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 30 # entire job
    steps:
      - run: sleep 300
        timeout-minutes: 20 # individual step

That’s all from the Gemba on wanting to specify timeout-minutes in GitHub Actions Workflow to prevent wasteful minute quota consumption.

Reference Information

• [GitHub] Recommendation for Timeout Specification in Actions Workflow | Developers.IO ([GitHub]Actions Workflowへのtimeout指定のススメ | Developers.IO)
• GitHub Actions Workflow Syntax - GitHub Docs (GitHub Actionsのワークフロー構文 - GitHub Docs)