gravitational/teleport · error

the request was canceled

Error message

the request was canceled

What it means

Exported sentinel ErrCanceled for the LLM app-access proxy: the inference request was canceled, typically because the downstream client disconnected or the context was canceled; providers map it together with timeouts to a timeout error type.

Source

Thrown at lib/srv/app/llm/errors/errors.go:35

package errors

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/gravitational/trace"

	"github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/utils"
)

var (
	// ErrTimeout returned when the request times out.
	ErrTimeout = errors.New("the request timed out. Try again or use streaming for long responses")
	// ErrBadRequest returned when the request has bad format or invalid fields.
	ErrBadRequest = errors.New("the inference provider rejected the request as invalid. Check the request body for unsupported or invalid fields")
	// ErrCanceled returned when the request is canceled.
	ErrCanceled = errors.New("the request was canceled")
	// ErrUnauthorized returned when the request is unauthorized.
	ErrUnauthorized = errors.New("the inference provider rejected the request due to authentication or authorization configuration. Contact your Teleport administrator")
	// ErrRejected returned when the provider rejects the request.
	ErrRejected = errors.New("the inference provider rejected the request due to usage limits. Contact your Teleport administrator")
	// ErrUnsupported returned when the requested endpoint is not supported.
	ErrUnsupported = errors.New("teleport doesn't support the requested endpoint, please check the list of supported endpoints in the documentation")
	// ErrBadResponse returned when the provider replied the request with an unsupported message or format.
	ErrBadResponse = errors.New("the inference provider returned an unexpected response. Contact your Teleport administrator")
	// ErrConfig returned when the app or app service are misconfigured, requiring admin intervention.
	ErrConfig = errors.New("unable to serve request due to an app configuration error. Contact your Teleport administrator")
	// ErrInternal returned when there is a Teleport processing error (nothing to do with the inference provider).
	ErrInternal = errors.New("unable to serve the request due to an internal error. Contact your Teleport administrator")
	// ErrLimitExceeded returned when Teleport rejects the request due to limit exceeded.
	ErrLimitExceeded = errors.New("tokens quota exceeded. Contact your Teleport administrator")
	// ErrUnknown returned when the handler could not identify the error.
	ErrUnknown = errors.New("the inference provider returned an unexpected error. Contact your Teleport administrator")
)

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Solutions

1. No fix needed if the client intentionally canceled; otherwise retry the request
2. Avoid closing the client connection while waiting for long completions

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at lib/srv/app/llm/errors/errors.go:35 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of gravitational/teleport@1283425b60 (2026-09-02). Data as JSON: /api/errors/14e7f2d64c8ad8a3. Report an issue: GitHub.