title: Configuring response timeout in Apache JMeter
body: <p>I am trying to check if a particular HTTP request's response time is over 30 seconds, and if it is, then mark it as failed and stop the thread. Sometimes I can see response times close to 80 seconds, an no browser is waiting that long for a response from the server.</p>
  <p>I found the following three ways to set a timeout value in JMeter, however this confuses me, because there is multiple options and I don't know which one to use, or if there is any difference at all between them.</p>
  <p>So here are the options I found that are related to response timeout:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>Setting Response timeout value in the sampler
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ud9dC.png" alt="Method 1" /></li>
  <li>Add a Duration assertion</li>
  </ol>
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/v8FWO.png" alt="Method 2" /><br />
  3. Setting timeout in <em>jmeter.properties</em> configuration file. Options I found here:</p>
  <ol>
  <li><em>os_sampler.poll_for_timeout=x</em></li>
  <li><em>http.socket.timeout=x</em></li>
  <li><em>httpclient.timeout=x</em></li>
  </ol>
  <p>So, the problem is that I don't know where to set the response timeout from the listed options. Is there any difference at all between these options?
  <strong>So what I would like to see as a result: If a particular HTTP request takes more than 30 seconds to get a response from the server, stop waiting for a response and mark it as a failed request.</strong></p>