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ETIMEDOUT when fetch external API

Posted on February 17, 2025

My NestJS server deployed through App Platform sometime get ETIMEDOUT error when call to external API (Airtable API) from App Platform. But it always works in my local

Node version: 20.11.1

at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/workspace/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1501:11)
at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:519:28)
at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:500:9)
at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:519:28)
at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:169:8)
at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:128:3)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
type: 'system',
errno: 'ETIMEDOUT',
code: 'ETIMEDOUT'
}


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Heya,

You can be receiving the timeout due to resource exhaustion.

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