Connection Timeout with Elasticsearch

Question

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

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


        

Answer 1

Try setting timeout in Elasticsearch initialization:

es = Elasticsearch([{'host': HOST_ADDRESS, 'port': THE_PORT}], timeout=30)

You can even set retry_on_timeout to True and give the max_retries an optional number:

es = Elasticsearch([{'host': HOST_ADDRESS, 'port': THE_PORT}], timeout=30, max_retries=10, retry_on_timeout=True)