## TL;DR

When you build Workato API recipes, keep the synchronous response path under the job timeout: 30 seconds default, 240 max. Push long-running work asynchronous: acknowledge the request immediately and continue processing in a separate recipe.

## Steps

1. When you build Workato API recipes, keep the synchronous response path under the job timeout: 30 seconds default, 240 max. Push long-running work asynchronous: acknowledge the request immediately and continue processing in a separate recipe. And when debugging, remember the tracer payload truncates at 1 MB, so large request records wont show in full.

## When to use

You are seeing this: When you build Workato API recipes, keep the synchronous response path under the job timeout: 30 seconds default, 240 max. Use this skill when you run into "Workato API recipes: the job timeout defaults to 30 seconds, max 240".

## When not to use

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## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.