# Elastic Search Query TimeOut not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-timeout-not-working/45417>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 25, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-timeout-not-working/45417 "2016-03-25T05:55:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rraghuvittal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@rraghuvittal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rraghuvittal)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-timeout-not-working/45417/1 "2016-03-25T05:55:49Z")

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Hi All  
we are using Elastic Search RESt api

I am passing the timeout as query parameter. When i set the timeout value "search " query is not getting timeout  
always.

GET \_search?timeout=1ms

{  
"took": 41,  
"timed\_out": true,  
"\_shards": {  
"total": 313,  
"successful": 313,  
"failed": 0  
},  
}

for some requests time\_out is true remaining requests it is giving false

Is there anyway to control the Query TimeOut and "took" value.

Regards,  
Raghu.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-timeout-not-working/45417/2 "2017-07-05T23:05:17Z")

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