# skip the playbook task execution if it is taking more than a specified time

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/skip-the-playbook-task-execution-if-it-is-taking-more-than-a-specified-time/25163>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 2, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/skip-the-playbook-task-execution-if-it-is-taking-more-than-a-specified-time/25163 "2017-08-02T11:24:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Akku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@Akku](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akku)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/skip-the-playbook-task-execution-if-it-is-taking-more-than-a-specified-time/25163/1 "2017-08-02T11:24:05Z")

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I want to skip a ansible playbook task if it is taking more time to execute than a specified limit  
egg: I need to skip the execution of a find command task, if it is not giving response in 5 minutes.

How can do it, Could someone help on this?

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/skip-the-playbook-task-execution-if-it-is-taking-more-than-a-specified-time/25163/2 "2017-08-02T11:40:40Z")

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You could use async and poll  
[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks\_async.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_async.html)

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**Author:** ![Akku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@Akku](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akku)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/skip-the-playbook-task-execution-if-it-is-taking-more-than-a-specified-time/25163/3 "2017-08-02T11:43:22Z")

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Thanks Kai