diff --git a/src/logging/writers/ElasticSearch.cc b/src/logging/writers/ElasticSearch.cc
index 2095ed62df..1ae81dfde8 100644
--- a/src/logging/writers/ElasticSearch.cc
+++ b/src/logging/writers/ElasticSearch.cc
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ bool ElasticSearch::HTTPSend(CURL *handle)
 	// The best (only?) way to disable that is to just use HTTP 1.0
 	curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0);
 
-	curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, transfer_timeout);
+	//curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, transfer_timeout);
 	
 	CURLcode return_code = curl_easy_perform(handle);