# HealthCheckTimeout

Milliseconds to wait for an HTTP health check before sending events.

This parameter applies to omelasticsearch: Elasticsearch Output Module.

Name:

  HealthCheckTimeout

Scope:

  action

Type:

  integer

Default:

  action=3500

Required?:

  no

Introduced:

  at least 8.x, possibly earlier

## Description

Before logging begins, rsyslog issues an HTTP HEAD to /_cat/health and waits up to this many milliseconds for HTTP OK.

## Action usage

    action(type="omelasticsearch" HealthCheckTimeout="...")

## See also

See also omelasticsearch: Elasticsearch Output Module.

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