elasticsearch.requestTimeout config setting being ignored by visualisations

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I'm using Kibana 6.6.0, installed through the official Docker image. The elasticsearch.requestTimeout seems to be being ignored by visualisations. Here is my kibana.yml config:

server.name: kibana
server.host: "0"
elasticsearch.url: http://elasticsearch:9200

server.ssl.key: my_cert.key
server.ssl.certificate: my_cert.crt
server.ssl.enabled: true

elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 60000

No matter what I set this value to though, visualisations seem to timeout at 30000 ms.

If I set a small value like elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 12345 then I can see Timelion complaining about timeouts:
image
...so it's obviously picked up the config here.

However with this config all other standard visualisations (such as a simple metric visualisation) still seem to keep the default of 30000ms. When I inspect the POST requests going to the _msearch endpoint I see this at the end:
...."filter":[{"match_all":{}}],"should":[],"must_not":[]}},"timeout":"30000ms"}

which looks like this config setting is being ignored?

I'm confused! Any pointers on how to debug?

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Finally found by reading the source the bit of code that does this, I should have been using:

elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 60000

Fixed!

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Glad you figured it out - additionally I was going to make sure you didn't have search.default_search_timeout set in your cluster settings. You can view the current cluster settings from the ES API localhost:9200/_cluster/settings?flat_settings=true

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