How to Fix Read timed out in Elasticsearch

Question

I used Elasticsearch-1.1.0 to index tweets. The indexing process is okay. Then I upgraded the version. Now I use Elasticsearch-1.3.2, and I get this message randomly:

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Answer 1

Its hard to give a direct answer since the error your seeing might be associated with the client you are using. However a solution might be one of the following:

1.Increase the default timeout Globally when you create the ES client by passing the timeout parameter. Example in Python

es = Elasticsearch(timeout=30)

2.Set the timeout per request made by the client. Taken from Elasticsearch Python docs below.

# only wait for 1 second, regardless of the client's default
es.cluster.health(wait_for_status='yellow', request_timeout=1)

The above will give the cluster some extra time to respond