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Hi Prefect! :slightly_smiling_face: I'm updating my flows from 1.X to 2.X. Is there a way to set a task timeout as we had in the previous versions? thanks a lot!

You can currently set `timeout_seconds` on your flow decorator, so if you convert this task to a subflow, you can already solve the issue this way.

Setting timeout on a task is a reasonable request - let's open an issue to investigate whether we can add that - I believe this would be hard to do with async and various distributed task runners like Dask or Ray, but Michael can estimate that best - you can follow up on the issue. Thanks for bringing this up and until then you can set a timeout on a subflow

<@ULVA73B9P> open "Consider adding `timeout` to the task decorator"

<https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/6600>

thanks! :slightly_smiling_face: I would check the subtask docs for now

<@U01CP03SA72> looks like this is already possible! <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/6600#issuecomment-1230335130>

oooh I see, nice feature! Thanks a lot Anna :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi <@U02H1A95XDW> would you happen know what the default task timeout is? I see this `timeout` kwarg in the `BaseTaskRunner` . But can't figure out where the timeout is being set? (<https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/269e3678d03b820429f5e090a740b3d5e57058d9/src/prefect/task_runners.py#L132>)

Wondering if this config can be changed globally? I have some long running tasks on Dask and it's timing out prematurely. Many thanks!

One issue I see with the `future.result(timeout=s)` suggestion is it is (to my knowledge) a blocking operation in Dask (<https://docs.dask.org/en/stable/futures.html#submit-tasks>). I could use the `client.gather` pattern with futures but it seems much easier to just configure timeout for all tasks.

I'd encourage you to add any additional findings directly to the GitHub issue <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/6600> this way, engineers who know this well can answer and see how we can add timeout. Thanks in advance, Chris!

Thanks Anna! I'll try to create a MVRE for this, but it'll take some time as the behavior seems to differ across execution environments...