# Python connection timing out

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/python-connection-timing-out/37566>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 18, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/python-connection-timing-out/37566 "2015-12-18T11:37:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![isaacpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@isaacpm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/isaacpm)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/python-connection-timing-out/37566/1 "2015-12-18T11:37:00Z")

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Hi,

We are using the python library to index documents into ES and sometimes we get the following error:

> elasticsearch.exceptions.ConnectionTimeout: ConnectionTimeout caused by - ReadTimeoutError(HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=9200): Read timed out. (read timeout=10))

The connection with python we use is:

> es.index(index="lcm\_db", doc\_type='host', body=document, timeout='20s')

So not sure why it times out with 10 when we are specifying 20s, I guess I'm missing something very simple, but can't think what it is.  
Any ideas?

Thanks,  
Isaac

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**Author:** ![vionemc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7cd45c/32.png) [@vionemc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vionemc)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/python-connection-timing-out/37566/2 "2016-01-26T10:43:14Z")

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I also got this error. But only when I want to index or update.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/python-connection-timing-out/37566/3 "2017-07-05T23:21:35Z")

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