# Timeout long running indexing query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-long-running-indexing-query/36233>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 3, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-long-running-indexing-query/36233 "2015-12-03T00:35:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![abhijat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@abhijat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhijat)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-long-running-indexing-query/36233/1 "2015-12-03T00:35:54Z")

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Is there way to timeout a long running indexing query? I have done something like this:

`UpdateResponse resp = updateIndex.execute().actionGet(30000);`

OR

`BulkResponse bulkResponse = bulkRequest.execute().actionGet(30000);`

But I still see queries running beyond this time and there is no exception generated. I am sure I am missing something or doing it incorrectly.

Any pointers on how can this be addressed?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-long-running-indexing-query/36233/2 "2015-12-03T05:14:54Z")

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You can timeout the connection that requests the search, but there is currently no way in ES to tell it to cancel a query that has run beyond a given time.

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**Author:** ![abhijat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@abhijat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhijat)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-long-running-indexing-query/36233/3 "2015-12-04T19:46:24Z")

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How can I timeout the connection? is it the way I have done above?

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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, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timeout-long-running-indexing-query/36233/4 "2017-07-05T23:33:29Z")

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