diff --git a/api/src/main/java/io/grpc/ServerTimeoutManager.java b/api/src/main/java/io/grpc/ServerTimeoutManager.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 The gRPC Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package io.grpc;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
+import java.util.function.Consumer;
+
+/** A global instance that schedules the timeout tasks. */
+public class ServerTimeoutManager {
+  private final int timeout;
+  private final TimeUnit unit;
+
+  private final Consumer<String> logFunction;
+
+  private final ScheduledExecutorService scheduler = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1);
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a manager. Please make it a singleton and remember to shut it down.
+   *
+   * @param timeout Configurable timeout threshold. A value less than 0 (e.g. 0 or -1) means not to
+   *     check timeout.
+   * @param unit The unit of the timeout.
+   * @param logFunction An optional function that can log (e.g. Logger::warn). Through this,
+   *     we avoid depending on a specific logger library.
+   */
+  public ServerTimeoutManager(int timeout, TimeUnit unit, Consumer<String> logFunction) {
+    this.timeout = timeout;
+    this.unit = unit;
+    this.logFunction = logFunction;
+  }
+
+  /** Please call shutdown() when the application exits. */
+  public void shutdown() {
+    scheduler.shutdownNow();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Schedules a timeout and calls the RPC method invocation.
+   * Invalidates the timeout if the invocation completes in time.
+   *
+   * @param invocation The RPC method invocation that processes a request.
+   */
+  public void intercept(Runnable invocation) {
+    if (timeout <= 0) {
+      invocation.run();
+      return;
+    }
+
+    TimeoutTask timeoutTask = schedule(Thread.currentThread());
+    try {
+      invocation.run();
+    } finally {
+      // If it completes in time, invalidate the timeout.
+      timeoutTask.invalidate();
+    }
+  }
+
+  private TimeoutTask schedule(Thread thread) {
+    TimeoutTask timeoutTask = new TimeoutTask(thread);
+    if (!scheduler.isShutdown()) {
+      scheduler.schedule(timeoutTask, timeout, unit);
+    }
+    return timeoutTask;
+  }
+
+  private class TimeoutTask implements Runnable {
+    /** null thread means the task is invalid and will do nothing */
+    private final AtomicReference<Thread> threadReference = new AtomicReference<>();
+
+    private TimeoutTask(Thread thread) {
+      threadReference.set(thread);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+      // Ensure the reference is consumed only once.
+      Thread thread = threadReference.getAndSet(null);
+      if (thread != null) {
+        thread.interrupt();
+        if (logFunction != null) {
+          logFunction.accept(
+                  "Interrupted RPC thread "
+                          + thread.getName()
+                          + " for timeout at "
+                          + timeout
+                          + " "
+                          + unit);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    private void invalidate() {
+      threadReference.set(null);
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/io/grpc/TimeoutServerInterceptor.java b/api/src/main/java/io/grpc/TimeoutServerInterceptor.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 The gRPC Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package io.grpc;
+
+/**
+ * An optional ServerInterceptor that can interrupt server calls that are running for too long time.
+ *
+ * <p>You can add it to your server using the ServerBuilder#intercept(ServerInterceptor) method.
+ *
+ * <p>Limitation: it only applies the timeout to unary calls (streaming calls will run without timeout).
+ */
+public class TimeoutServerInterceptor implements ServerInterceptor {
+
+  private final ServerTimeoutManager serverTimeoutManager;
+
+  public TimeoutServerInterceptor(ServerTimeoutManager serverTimeoutManager) {
+    this.serverTimeoutManager = serverTimeoutManager;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public <ReqT, RespT> ServerCall.Listener<ReqT> interceptCall(
+      ServerCall<ReqT, RespT> serverCall,
+      Metadata metadata,
+      ServerCallHandler<ReqT, RespT> serverCallHandler) {
+    return new TimeoutServerCallListener<>(
+        serverCallHandler.startCall(serverCall, metadata), serverCall, serverTimeoutManager);
+  }
+
+  /** A listener that intercepts the RPC method invocation for timeout control. */
+  private static class TimeoutServerCallListener<ReqT>
+      extends ForwardingServerCallListener.SimpleForwardingServerCallListener<ReqT> {
+
+    private final ServerCall<?, ?> serverCall;
+    private final ServerTimeoutManager serverTimeoutManager;
+
+    private TimeoutServerCallListener(
+        ServerCall.Listener<ReqT> delegate,
+        ServerCall<?, ?> serverCall,
+        ServerTimeoutManager serverTimeoutManager) {
+      super(delegate);
+      this.serverCall = serverCall;
+      this.serverTimeoutManager = serverTimeoutManager;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Only intercepts unary calls because the timeout is inapplicable to streaming calls.
+     * Intercepts onHalfClose() because the RPC method is called in it. See
+     * io.grpc.stub.ServerCalls.UnaryServerCallHandler.UnaryServerCallListener
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void onHalfClose() {
+      if (serverCall.getMethodDescriptor().getType().clientSendsOneMessage()) {
+        serverTimeoutManager.intercept(super::onHalfClose);
+      } else {
+        super.onHalfClose();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}