Start and shutdown

The lifecylce of the container is managed by Kubernetes. The container itself is stateless, therefore it can be shutdown or restarted at any point in time if a downtime is acceptable.

If the container is shutdown or restarted, any events that are currently processed are dropped.

Graceful shutdown

A graceful shutdown helps the application finishes ongoing tasks before it stops.

When you stop the application, it waits for a set time before shutting down. This wait time is controlled by a variable HostSettings__ShutdownTimeoutSeconds, which defaults to 30 seconds but can be changed.

Exit codes

After shutdown, the application will exit with a code to show what happened. These codes help you or support teams understand how the app stopped:

None (0) – The application shut down cleanly with no issues.
Timeout (1) – Shutdown exceeded the configured timeout (e.g., 30 seconds) before tasks could finish.
ShutdownError (2) – An error occurred while shutting down, such as a failure in resource cleanup.