---
title: timeout
description: The timeout is the length in seconds each individual bulk request should wait for shards that are unavailable. The default value is 60, meaning 60 seconds...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/elasticsearch/curator/option_timeout
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Elasticsearch Curator
---

# timeout
<note>
  This setting is only used by the [reindex](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/elasticsearch/curator/reindex) action.
</note>

The `timeout` is the length in seconds each individual bulk request should wait for shards that are unavailable. The default value is `60`, meaning 60 seconds.
```yaml
actions:
  1:
    description: "Reindex index1,index2,index3 into new_index"
    action: reindex
    options:
      wait_interval: 9
      max_wait: -1
      timeout: 90
      request_body:
        source:
          index: ['index1', 'index2', 'index3']
        dest:
          index: new_index
    filters:
    - filtertype: none
```