Use cloud agents
Agents run your tests. A cloud agent is an agent that's hosted in the Tosca Cloud and fully maintained by us. Cloud agents are available to your entire team for test runs. The results are also visible to all.
If you need more Cloud agents, contact your sales representative.
If you prefer to host your agents, set up team agents
Run tests with cloud agents
Cloud agents automatically start up at runtime, with a small delay.
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If you have multiple cloud agents, Tosca Cloud figures out the best way to distribute your tests among these agents.
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If you have a mix of cloud and team agents, Tosca Cloud preferentially uses your team agents. To run a playlist only on cloud agents, select the characteristic Agent-type=Cloud-agent in the playlist's Agent characteristics tab.
Note that you can only use cloud agents to run web tests and other types of tests that don't require any special files or applications. Cloud agents only have standard Windows applications and web browsers installed.
Check your agents
Once a test run starts that'll go to one or more cloud agents, you can see these agents on the 
Agents page.
Check an agent's detail view for screenshots, which Tosca Cloud takes every two seconds.
Remember timeouts
Cloud agents have different timeouts:
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Idle timeouts (5 minutes): If the agent doesn't run a test for 5 minutes, it shuts down.
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Run timeouts (6 hours): If the agent's been running longer than 6 hours, it shuts down and Tosca Cloud reports the test case as failed.
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Run timeouts for trial accounts (5 minutes): In trial accounts, you can run test cases for up to 5 minutes. Once this limit is exceeded, the test case execution is canceled.