Bot Lifetime

A bot is python program running its own venv. There is one instance of this program running for every conversation where the bot is active.

The bot program will end:

• After 5 minutes of not receiving any exported function calls

• During a rolling upgrade of the backend infra

• An exception is not caught

• Bot code is web_page_updated

• Resource constraint issue in the backend infra (out of memory, auto-scaling, etc)

In the event your bot dies, the next function call will automatically create a new instance. If you need to run cron tasks, then use the cron tag and bot_hourly export.

Warning

Do not use global vars for anything critical, use Bot Data to store anything that needs to survive the bot being restarted.