# Timeout for facets **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 4, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-for-facets/9246 "2012-10-04T22:02:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mike](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-for-facets/9246/1 "2012-10-04T22:02:36Z")
Is there a way to set a timeout when querying for facets? I've set "/\_search?size=0&timeout=10s" in the search DSL, but I do not get a response back from elastic within 10 seconds when I purposely send facet that will take a very very long time (for testing purposes). I have also set a timeout on curl for 20 seconds just so I don't wait forever, and I end up getting a response back from curl saying the query timed out while elastic remains unresponsive. -- ---
**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-for-facets/9246/2 "2012-10-05T03:24:43Z")
Hi Mike, Unfortunately, all I can do it point you to [https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/elasticsearch/otis$20timeout/elasticsearch/Lr9J-WZbtIw/6620kh45rmgJ](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/elasticsearch/otis$20timeout/elasticsearch/Lr9J-WZbtIw/6620kh45rmgJ) In tests we've done so far timeout didn't work no matter how we specified it. ## Otis Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html) Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html) On Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:02:36 PM UTC-4, Mike wrote: > Is there a way to set a timeout when querying for facets? I've set > "/\_search?size=0&timeout=10s" in the search DSL, but I do not get a > response back from elastic within 10 seconds when I purposely send facet > that will take a very very long time (for testing purposes). I have also > set a timeout on curl for 20 seconds just so I don't wait forever, and I > end up getting a response back from curl saying the query timed out while > elastic remains unresponsive. -- ---
**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-for-facets/9246/3 "2012-10-05T04:10:00Z")
Hi, a long time ago I asked similar question (at the Java API level): [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Different-API-calls-for-the-same-timeout-functionality-td2850753.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Different-API-calls-for-the-same-timeout-functionality-td2850753.html) May be the answer will help you a bit. But as I said, this was more the year ago so not sure if it is still valid. Regards, Lukas On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Otis Gospodnetic \<[otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com) > wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Unfortunately, all I can do it point you to > [Redirecting to Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/elasticsearch/otis$20timeout/elasticsearch/Lr9J-WZbtIw/6620kh45rmgJ) > > In tests we've done so far timeout didn't work no matter how we specified > it. > > ## Otis > > Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html) > Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html) > > On Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:02:36 PM UTC-4, Mike wrote: > > > Is there a way to set a timeout when querying for facets? I've set > > "/\_search?size=0&timeout=10s" in the search DSL, but I do not get a > > response back from elastic within 10 seconds when I purposely send facet > > that will take a very very long time (for testing purposes). I have also > > set a timeout on curl for 20 seconds just so I don't wait forever, and I > > end up getting a response back from curl saying the query timed out while > > elastic remains unresponsive. > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-for-facets/9246/4 "2017-07-06T03:10:01Z")