# Constant API Timeout Errors

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/constant-api-timeout-errors/576154>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Tags:** api\
**Created:** [December 30, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/constant-api-timeout-errors/576154 "2023-12-30T15:18:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![david.p9372](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/91b2a8/32.png) [@david.p9372](https://community.openai.com/u/david.p9372)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/constant-api-timeout-errors/576154/1 "2023-12-30T15:18:38Z")

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Hey guys, I am currently using Langchain as a wrapper over OpenAI for vector database integrations. I have been trying to figure out why my system sometimes malfunctions and i’ve i  
dentified OpenAI’s API as the root cause. It seems that sometimes OpenAI’s completions will randomly timeout for no apparent reason. I have a request timeout parameter set to 120 seconds.

Is anyone else experiencing this and if you are how did you resolve it?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/2/3/b/23b34ef2cab0ec9cd44983237859903d32e20894.png)