Connection Timeout with Elasticsearch

Question

from datetime import datetime
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
es = Elasticsearch()

doc = {
    \'author\': \'kimchy\',
    \'text\': \'Elasticsearch: cool.          


        

Answer 1

By default, the timeout value is set to 10 secs. If one wants to change the global timeout value, this can be achieved by setting the flag timeout=your-time while creating the object.

If you have already created the object without specifying the timeout value, then you can set the timeout value for particular request by using request_timeout=your-time flag in the query.

es.search(index="my_index",
          doc_type="document",
          body=get_req_body(),
          request_timeout=30)