Image inside the document eventually turns into '[Image load timed out: …]'

What you are seeing

An image inside the document eventually turns into '[Image load timed out: …]'.


#Why it happens

The image did not load within 15 seconds.


#What to do

Check the image URL is reachable and, if it is external, that its domain is approved under Egress.


#Settings involved

Setting

Where

What it does

Global settings → Permissions

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Controls edit access to the GLOBAL asset store. Which is what governs who may create Global markdown templates. It is shared with diagrams, images, calendar and search because they all use one Confluence custom content t

Global settings → Egress domains

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Customer-approved domains are fetched and loaded directly by the reader's browser instead of going through the Capable proxy, which also makes their images loadable without a Capable token. Customer-managed egress is ena


#Limits that apply here

Limit

Value

What happens

Large-document scroll mode

500,000 characters

Past this the document macro shows '⚠️ Large content detected. Rendering in scrollable mode.' and renders inside a fixed 1200px-high scroll box instead of inline.

Virtualised rendering threshold

500,000 chars ; 1,000,000 chars (large p

Above the threshold the document is chunked (400 lines or 60,000 characters per chunk, fences kept intact) and only visible chunks are rendered.

URL fetch size limit

2.5 MB

A URL-sourced document larger than 2.5 MB is rejected with 413; a disallowed content type is rejected with 415. The proxy also upgrades http to https, refuses non-http(s) schemes, and blocks IP litera



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