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.

Context: Official docs (Platform quotas): documents that API platform recipe jobs time out after 30 seconds by default, configurable up to a maximum of 240 seconds. Related quotas that bite API recipes: a 5 MB maximum payload and tracer payloads truncated at 1 MB.