# Elasticsearch gives Read timed out. (read timeout=10)) on sql queries **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-sql\ **Created:** [April 16, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-gives-read-timed-out-read-timeout-10-on-sql-queries/270351 "2021-04-16T08:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zozo6015](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zozo6015/32/12117_2.png) [@zozo6015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zozo6015)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-gives-read-timed-out-read-timeout-10-on-sql-queries/270351/1 "2021-04-16T08:36:39Z")
Hello, We have some queries that are executed using SQL and they sometimes produce a read timeout reach. Is there a way to globally increase the timeout value? We are running elasticsearch version 7.7.1. ---
**Author:** ![bogdan.pintea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bogdan.pintea/32/45740_2.png) [@bogdan.pintea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bogdan.pintea)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-gives-read-timed-out-read-timeout-10-on-sql-queries/270351/2 "2021-04-21T14:48:38Z")
Hello @zozo6015 , Are you asking how to set a "server side" timeout, rather than using the client's [request\_timeout](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.7/sql-rest-fields.html) (assuming you're using the REST API)? Or is changing this client setting somehow inconvenient for your use case? ---
**Author:** ![zozo6015](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zozo6015/32/12117_2.png) [@zozo6015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zozo6015)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-gives-read-timed-out-read-timeout-10-on-sql-queries/270351/3 "2021-04-22T08:17:58Z")
I was assuming that it is a server side timeout and it doesn't seam to be a request.timeout since that is by default 90s and we did not configured anything on serverside to make it 10s. ---
**Author:** ![bogdan.pintea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bogdan.pintea/32/45740_2.png) [@bogdan.pintea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bogdan.pintea)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-gives-read-timed-out-read-timeout-10-on-sql-queries/270351/4 "2021-04-23T11:02:24Z")
There seems to be an [issue](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/72151) with the timeout settings, currently only `page_timeout` is taken into account (also for first request) -- just in case you were trying to set these parameters. Server-side there is a [global search timeout](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.7/search.html#global-search-timeout), but that should be disabled by default. Edit: adding `error_trace=true` URI parameter might give you some hints about where is the timeout occurring, if the above server setting is indeed left disabled. ---
**Author:** ![zozo6015](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zozo6015/32/12117_2.png) [@zozo6015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zozo6015)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-gives-read-timed-out-read-timeout-10-on-sql-queries/270351/5 "2021-04-23T11:33:14Z")
thanks will look into it. ---
**Author:** ![zozo6015](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zozo6015/32/12117_2.png) [@zozo6015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zozo6015)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-gives-read-timed-out-read-timeout-10-on-sql-queries/270351/6 "2021-04-23T11:34:19Z")
It seam the issue was fixed by adding `&timeout=60` to the request url on the client side. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-gives-read-timed-out-read-timeout-10-on-sql-queries/270351/7 "2021-05-21T11:34:22Z")
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