# HTTP upstream keep alive timeout
**URL:** https://discuss.konghq.com/t/http-upstream-keep-alive-timeout/3743
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [June 13, 2019, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/http-upstream-keep-alive-timeout/3743 "2019-06-13T04:58:31Z")
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### Author:  [@mathewjpallan](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/mathewjpallan)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2019, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/http-upstream-keep-alive-timeout/3743/1 "2019-06-13T04:58:31Z")
I am using Kong 0.14 and was curious if there was a config to set the idle timeout for keep alive connections to the upstream server. I have looked through the documentation and can only find a config for keep alive connection count.
Also what is the default idle timeout for upstream (keep alive) connections from Kong.
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### Author:  [@mathewjpallan](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/mathewjpallan)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/http-upstream-keep-alive-timeout/3743/2 "2019-06-22T15:50:51Z")
The ability to control keep alive request timeouts is expected in 1.3 of Kong. More on this here [https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/4737](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/4737)