Policy Timeout Errors
Policies may fail with the error message Policy evaluation exceeded maximum time and may not generate a complete log for export. Policies have a maximum execution time of one hour before the error occurs.
To address this issue, reduce the scope of the policies to ensure completion within the allowed time.
- Apply filtering at the cloud vendor account level. This can be fully automated using Flexera's Meta policies. These only need to be applied once and create a child policy for each account.
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- Alternatively, filter policies by other dimensions such as region, billing connection, or specific tag dimensions.
- Rerun the policy and confirm that it completes within the one-hour limit.
- If the customized filters still result in policies running for more than an hour, apply further filtering or switch to using Meta policies for better performance.
Filtering and scoping the policy properly allow it to execute successfully within the maximum run time.
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