increase envoy route timeout to 5mins

[zduymz]

default envoy route timeout is 15s. It's not sufficient for request that take long time to process.
An Issue was raised here: #6382
PR add timeout to 5mins

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[jippi]

Isn't this something that can be configured by the end-user in the connect{} stanza? imo it really should - we got many endpoints where an envoy request can take a looooong time (by design), talking +10min easily

[hanshasselberg]

Thank you for your work @zduymz! Would you want to take a stab at making this configurable? The default is not good for you and I guess someone doesn't like 5minutes either.
Thanks!

[zduymz]

sure @i0rek. What variable name should be? I'm not good at naming concisely.

[rboyer]

Incidentally, this can already be configured for all clients of a given service by editing that service's service-router config entry and updating the RequestTimeout setting: https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/config-entries/service-router#requesttimeout

Would that work for your use cases, or do you also require this to be configured for individual clients of a service in the upstream configuration itself?

[mikemorris]

Closing this as it's been sitting a while with several conflicts now, and I believe the approach we'd want to take would instead be to implement a configurable timeout as described in #6382 if the approach @rboyer suggested isn't sufficient.