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On-Going Request Duration #10596

Open stuprice opened 2 years ago

stuprice commented 2 years ago

Is there an existing request for this feature?

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I use Postman to frequently execute long running requests. Although once complete it tells me how long the request took, I'd like to be able to see how long it's been running for as it's still executing.

Describe the solution you'd like

Just show the duration of the request somewhere on the UI.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

shubhbhargav commented 2 years ago

@stuprice Really appreciate the feedback. :)

Can you please share some more details around this, specifically the following?

  1. Are these long running APIs owned by you? If yes, are they designed to take time?
  2. Given the timer for the request execution, are you planning to halt the request if it crosses a certain threshold?
stuprice commented 2 years ago

Sure no problem:

  1. Yes they are owned by me and they are expected to take a long time. They are typically ad-hoc in the sense they usually part of a data migration or system upgrade. For example when I raised this request, I was re-exporting a load of company data from a customer's system into Zoho. It's the kind of one off task that's not really possible other than to create a bespoke API in the customer's system to perform that task. In total it took about 8 hours to run and exported 17,000 records. It's useful to know how long the request has taken so I can get some idea on overall progress and expected completion time.
  2. No, I just want to see how long the request has been executing for as it helps to inform progress and expected duration which I calculate myself (not expecting this from Postman).
shubhbhargav commented 2 years ago

Got it. Thanks for the info @stuprice. I am marking it as a feature request internally for now.