# Response time longer than requestTimeout

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/response-time-longer-than-requesttimeout/216110>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 22, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/response-time-longer-than-requesttimeout/216110 "2020-01-22T17:36:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![wedkarz014](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wedkarz014/32/48935_2.png) [@wedkarz014](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wedkarz014)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/response-time-longer-than-requesttimeout/216110/1 "2020-01-22T17:36:43Z")

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Hi,  
I have a question about reponse time which i can see in kibana monitoring section. Kibana version is 6.8.3

 ![2020-01-22_18h05_41](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/8/28947766e935254a407b213709a66ba51a98301e.png)  
My settings from kibana.yml

> ```
> elasticsearch:
> requestTimeout: 180000
> shardTimeout: 180000
> 
> ```

This suprises me because kibana should break waiting for the response and usually it works, but as you can see in the screenshot in some cases not. Do you know why some requests take longer than the set requestTimeout?

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/response-time-longer-than-requesttimeout/216110/2 "2020-01-28T17:20:42Z")

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The chart shows the Kibana server response time, but a Kibana request may make multiple ES requests, hence why the values can be bigger than the timeout.

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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:** [February 25, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/response-time-longer-than-requesttimeout/216110/3 "2020-02-25T17:20:50Z")

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