faas/guide/troubleshooting.md
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# Troubleshooting guide
## Timeouts
Default timeouts are configured at the HTTP level and must be set both on the gateway and the function.
**Your function**
You can also enforce a hard-timeout for your function with the `hard_timeout` environmental variable.
For watchdog configuration see the [README](https://github.com/openfaas/faas/tree/master/watchdog).
The best way to set the timeout is in the YAML file generated by the `faas-cli`.
Example Go app that sleeps for (10 seconds):
```
provider:
name: faas
gateway: http://localhost:8080
functions:
sleepygo:
lang: go
handler: ./sleepygo
image: alexellis2/sleeps-for-10-seconds
environment:
read_timeout: 20
write_timeout: 20
```
handler.go
```
package function
...
func Handle(req []byte) string {
time.Sleep(time.Second * 10)
return fmt.Sprintf("Hello, Go. You said: %s", string(req))
}
```
**Gateway**
For the gateway set the following environmental variables:
```
read_timeout: 30
write_timeout: 30
```
The default for both is "8" - seconds. In the example above "30" means 30 seconds.
If on Kubernetes, set a matching timeout for the faas-netesd controller too:
```
read_timeout: 30
write_timeout: 30
```
## Healthcheck
Most problems reported via GitHub or Slack stem from a configuration problem or issue with a function. Here is a checklist of things you can try before digging deeper:
Checklist:
* [ ] All core services are deployed: i.e. gateway
* [ ] Check functions are deployed and started
* [ ] Check request isn't timing out at the gateway or the function level
## Docker Swarm
### List all functions
```
$ docker service ls
```
You are looking for 1/1 for the replica count of each service listed.
### Find a function's logs
```
$ docker service logs --tail 100 FUNCTION
```
### Find out if a function failed to start
```
$ docker service ps --no-trunc=true FUNCTION
```
### Stop and remove OpenFaaS
```
$ docker stack rm func
```
If you have additional services / functions remove the remaining ones like this:
```
$ docker service ls -q | xargs docker service rm
```
*Use with caution*
## Kubernetes
### List all functions
```
$ kubectl get deploy
```
### Find a function's logs
```
$ kubectl logs deploy/FUNCTION
```
### Find out if a function failed to start
```
$ kubectl describe deploy/FUNCTION
```
### Remove the OpenFaaS deployment
```
$ kubectl delete -f faas.yml,monitoring.yml,rbac.yml
```
If you're using the async stack remove it this way:
```
$ kubectl delete -f faas.async.yml,monitoring.yml,rbac.yml,nats.yml
```
## Watchdog
### Debug your function without deploying it
Here's an example of how you can deploy a function without using an orchestrator and the API gateeway. It is especially useful for testing:
```
$ docker run --name debug-alpine \
-p 8081:8080 -ti functions/alpine:latest sh
# fprocess=date fwatchdog &
```
Now you can access the function with one of the supported HTTP methods such as GET/POST etc:
```
$ curl -4 localhost:8081
```
### Edit your function without rebuilding it
You can bind-mount code straight into your function and work with it locally, until you are ready to re-build. This is a common flow with containers, but should be used sparingly.
Within the CLI directory for instance:
Build the samples:
```
$ git clone https://github.com/openfaas/faas-cli && \
cd faas-cli
$ faas-cli -action build -f ./samples.yml
```
Now work with the Python-hello sample, with the code mounted live:
```
$ docker run -v `pwd`/sample/url-ping/:/root/function/ \
--name debug-alpine -p 8081:8080 -ti alexellis/faas-url-ping sh
$ touch ./function/__init__.py
# fwatchdog
```
Now you can start editing the code in the sample/url-ping folder and it will reload live for every request.
```
$ curl localhost:8081 -d "https://www.google.com"
Handle this -> https://www.google.com
https://www.google.com => 200
```
Now you can edit handler.py and you'll see the change immediately:
```
$ echo "def handle(req):" > sample/url-ping/handler.py
$ echo ' print("Nothing to see here")' >> sample/url-ping/handler.py
$ curl localhost:8081 -d "https://www.google.com"
Nothing to see here
```