External task client requests frequency (time delay)

How to set the requests frequency (time delay) of External Task Client (based on SpringBoot) to Camunda? What is the default value? I only found “lock-duration” property, but it specifies for how many milliseconds an External Task is locked.

Hi @Anuar,

you can balance the network load and the latency between task creating and task work with either the exponential backoff and long polling.

More details on the backoff are here: External Task Client Spring Boot Starter | docs.camunda.org

Long polling can be controlled setting async-response-timeout. External Task Client Spring Boot Starter | docs.camunda.org

More details about long polling is here: External Tasks | docs.camunda.org

Hope this helps, Ingo

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