diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-ingest/src/ingest_v2/router.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-ingest/src/ingest_v2/router.rs
index 59fc86119ae..6ad33f62c5c 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-ingest/src/ingest_v2/router.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-ingest/src/ingest_v2/router.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
 use std::fmt;
-use std::sync::{Arc, Weak};
+use std::sync::{Arc, OnceLock, Weak};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
 use async_trait::async_trait;
@@ -53,12 +53,20 @@ use super::IngesterPool;
 use crate::{get_ingest_router_buffer_size, LeaderId};
 
 /// Duration after which ingest requests time out with [`IngestV2Error::Timeout`].
-pub(super) const INGEST_REQUEST_TIMEOUT: Duration = if cfg!(any(test, feature = "testsuite")) {
+const DEFAULT_INGEST_REQUEST_TIMEOUT: Duration = if cfg!(any(test, feature = "testsuite")) {
     Duration::from_millis(10)
 } else {
-    Duration::from_secs(35)
+    Duration::from_millis(500)
 };
 
+fn ingest_request_timeout() -> Duration {
+    static TIMEOUT: OnceLock<Duration> = OnceLock::new();
+    *TIMEOUT.get_or_init(|| {
+        let duration_ms = quickwit_common::get_from_env("QW_INGEST_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS", DEFAULT_INGEST_REQUEST_TIMEOUT.as_millis() as u64);
+        Duration::from_millis(duration_ms)
+    })
+}
+
 const MAX_PERSIST_ATTEMPTS: usize = 5;
 
 type PersistResult = (PersistRequestSummary, IngestV2Result<PersistResponse>);
@@ -436,7 +444,7 @@ impl IngestRouter {
         .map_err(|_| {
             let message = format!(
                 "ingest request timed out after {} seconds",
-                INGEST_REQUEST_TIMEOUT.as_secs()
+                timeout_duration.as_secs()
             );
             IngestV2Error::Timeout(message)
         })?
@@ -460,7 +468,7 @@ impl IngestRouterService for IngestRouter {
             .try_acquire_many_owned(request_size_bytes as u32)
             .map_err(|_| IngestV2Error::TooManyRequests)?;
 
-        self.ingest_timeout(ingest_request, INGEST_REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
+        self.ingest_timeout(ingest_request, ingest_request_timeout())
             .await
     }
 }