Kong: the default upstream timeouts are 60 seconds each

connect, send and read timeouts all default to 60000ms. A hung upstream therefore holds a Kong worker connection for a full minute, and under any real traffic the gateway runs out of connections before the upstream is declared unhealthy.

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Published 2026-08-25