# How to set the timeout for every search **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Tags:** docker\ **Created:** [November 29, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-timeout-for-every-search/290477 "2021-11-29T18:03:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gpribi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gpribi/32/65066_2.png) [@gpribi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gpribi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-timeout-for-every-search/290477/1 "2021-11-29T18:03:22Z")
Hello, how can I set the timeout for the searches? Sometimes the server takes too long to respond, way after the timeout of my webserver, so it has no sense that the ELK keeps working on that query I have a single node Enterprisesearch and Elasticsearch with docker in AWS EC2 ![ScreenHunter_969 Nov. 29 14.47](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/f/1fd9d6e5f0d0cbcdc2551d8e8ae498aea82c8b7c.jpeg) Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![DineshNaik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dineshnaik/32/89308_2.png) [@DineshNaik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshNaik)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-timeout-for-every-search/290477/2 "2021-11-30T08:05:37Z")
please refer [Search your data | Elasticsearch Guide [7.16] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.16/search-your-data.html#search-timeout) Probably you can set the cluster-wide default timeout for all search requests using `search.default_search_timeout` . ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-timeout-for-every-search/290477/3 "2022-11-04T08:33:10Z")