Add trace data when a browser check times out at 120 seconds

[jonoc330]

I did request this via support but wanted to flag this here as it's probably a feature.

Unfortunately when a browser check times out at 120 seconds, there is no trace data for me to detect why this occurred. This is extremely frustrating as I can't replicate the timeouts on my local machine, and they only happen sporadically, see my monitoring results below.

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[tnolet]

@jonoc330 this is on our radar as we speak. We are looking at how to avoid this, or give you more actionable options to mitigate this.

[tnolet]

@jan-osch @Antoine-C do we have this on the radar?

[Antoine-C]

Hello @jonoc330,

Thanks for your feedback. Due to some internal limitations we can't output the trace nor videos on a check timeout. We noticed that the root cause for a lot of timing out checks comes from actions, so you can use the following to add a timeout to actions and your check should fail before the 120s limit. You'll have then traces and videos to help you understand what's going on.

const { test } = require('@playwright/test')

test.use({ actionTimeout: 10 * 1000 })

test('myTestCase', async ({ page }) => {
  // Test case
})