# Getting \_groktimeout

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting--groktimeout/98279>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 24, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting--groktimeout/98279 "2017-08-24T18:59:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amit2015](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Amit2015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit2015)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting--groktimeout/98279/1 "2017-08-24T18:59:18Z")

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Hi,

I have ingest logs and in kibana some of logs getting \_groktimeout in tags. Any idea to solve this error?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting--groktimeout/98279/2 "2017-08-24T19:21:32Z")

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This is coming from logstash, it's taking too long for it to process a message.

You can try bumping the timeout, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.5/plugins-filters-grok.html#plugins-filters-grok-timeout\_millis](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.5/plugins-filters-grok.html#plugins-filters-grok-timeout_millis). With that said 30+ seconds is a long time to process a message. It's probably worth trying to optimize the grok expression and checking overall logstash load.

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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:** [September 21, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting--groktimeout/98279/3 "2017-09-21T19:21:36Z")

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