Activity Cancellation Heartbeat

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Hey!

I have a doubt, I added heartbeat to my activities in order to detect cancelations in order to be able to stop the activity process and execute some kind of gracefull shutdown

But I have the next question, is it mandatory to define heartbeat timeout for the activities?, I wonder this because I executed my workflows and the activities are properly pushing the hearbeat and also catching the cancelation properly

Is it mandatory to set the hearbeat timeout or is it optional?

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Java SDK heartbeats once a minute when heartbeat timeout is not set. I would recommend setting the heartbeat timeout. Without it, the activity will not timeout for the duration of StartToClose timeout in the case of worker crashes.