# Heartbeat - Avoid journey timeout
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-avoid-journey-timeout/309421
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** heartbeat
**Created:** [July 12, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-avoid-journey-timeout/309421 "2022-07-12T12:51:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Verdugo\_Gonzalo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Verdugo_Gonzalo)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-avoid-journey-timeout/309421/1 "2022-07-12T12:51:44Z")
Hello,
I'm working with synthetic monitoring.
How can I prevent the journey from finishing when one of the steps throws an error or timeout and 2 steps remain pending? unfortunately I have a small number of logins on a website for security reasons.
Is there a possibility to save the session in some constant?
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### Author:  [@vigneshshanmugam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vigneshshanmugam)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-avoid-journey-timeout/309421/2 "2022-07-18T20:29:58Z")
Hi @Verdugo_Gonzalo,
Unfortunately there is no way to replay a step when there are timeout errors from a specific Journey.
To get more details,
1. Does increasing the timeout helps in your scenario for the actions that are after your login attemps.
2. Would having a Retry option in Synthetics for steps solve your use-case?
If you can share a gist of what you are trying to do and how these steps are laid out, We might be able to suggest something else.
Thanks,
Vignesh
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-avoid-journey-timeout/309421/3 "2022-08-15T20:30:54Z")
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