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title: Customizable timeouts for uptime checks
date: "2025-08-07"
publisher: Honeybadger
url: "https://www.honeybadger.io/changelog/uptime-check-timeouts/"
---

We're excited to announce a new **timeout configuration option** for uptime checks! This feature gives you more control over how long your uptime checks wait for responses from your endpoints.

With a custom timeout value for each uptime check, you can:

- **Increase the timeout** (up to 120 seconds) for endpoints that naturally take longer to respond (e.g., database-heavy operations)
- **Decrease the timeout** (down to 1 second) to enforce strict SLA requirements (e.g., ensuring responses within 5 seconds)

When an uptime check exceeds your configured timeout, it will be marked as failed, helping you identify performance issues that don't meet your requirements.

This feature is available now on **Business and Enterprise** tiers. Other tiers will continue to use the default timeout of 30 seconds.

To configure timeout settings for your uptime checks:

1. Navigate to your uptime check settings
2. Look for the new "Timeout" field
3. Set your desired timeout value (in seconds)
4. Save your changes

The timeout configuration will take effect immediately for new check runs.

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