Running into limits can cause unexpected failures. Knowing Temporal's limits can prevent that.
This page details many of the hard and soft limits that are coded into the Temporal Platform. Hard limits fail with an error; soft limits produce a warning log on the server side.
All requests made to the Temporal Cluster by the Client or Worker are gRPC requests.
Sometimes, when these frontend requests can't be completed, you'll see this particular error message: Context: deadline exceeded.
Network interruptions, timeouts, server overload, and Query errors are some of the causes of this error.
The following sections discuss the nature of this error and how to troubleshoot it.