Unknown error has occurred in Cloud Functions

Question

First, it looks like this thread but it is not: An unknown error has occurred in Cloud Function: GCP Python

I deployed a couple of times Cloud Functions and they are still working fine. Nevertheless, since last week, following the same procedure I can deploy correctly, but testing them I get the error "An unknown error has occurred in Cloud Functions. The attempted action failed. Please try again, send feedback".

• In remote the script works perfectly and writes in Cloud Storage.

• My Cloud Function is a zip with a python script, loading a csv in Cloud Storage.

• The csv weights 160kB, the python script 5kB. So I used 128MiB of memory allocated.

• The execution time is 38 secs, almost half of the default timeout.

• It is configured to allow just traffic within the project.

• Env variables are not the problem

It's triggered by pub/sub and what I want is to schedule it when I can make it work.

I'm quite puzzled. I have such a lack of ideas right now that I started to think everything works fine but the Google testing method is what is fails... Nevertheless when I run the pub/sub topic in Cloud Scheduler it launches the error log without much info 1 . By any chance anyone had the same problem?

Thanks

Answer 1

Answer of myself from the past :

• Finally "solved". I'm a processing a csv in the CF of 160kB, in my computer the execution time lasts 38 seconds. For some reason in the CF I need 512MB of Allocated Memory and a timeout larger than 60 secs.

Answer of myself from a closest past :

• Don't test a CF using the test button, because sometimes it takes more than the max available timeout to finish, hence you'll get errors.

If you want to test it easily

• Write prints after milestones in your code to check how the script is evolving.
• Use the logs interface. The prints will be displayed there;)
• Also, logs show valuable info (sometimes even readable).
• Also, if you're sending for example, to buckets, check them after the CF is finished, maybe you get a surprise.

To sum up, don't believe blindly in the testing button .

Answer of myself from the present (already regretting the prints thing):

• There are nice python libraries to check logs, don't print stuff for that (if you have time).