Cypress applies different timeouts to cy.wait on a network alias than to normal commands
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:59.782Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:59.782Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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defaultCommandTimeout is 4000 ms and governs queries and assertions, but cy.wait('@alias') uses two other settings: requestTimeout, 5000 ms, for the request to be issued, and responseTimeout, 30000 ms, for the response to arrive. Raising defaultCommandTimeout to fix a slow API therefore changes nothing, and the resulting error message names which of the two phases expired.
pageLoadTimeout is 60000 ms and applies to cy.visit and to page transitions. Override any of them per command with a { timeout: n } option rather than globally, so one slow endpoint does not lengthen every failure in the suite. When a test times out waiting for a request the application never sends, the cause is usually a route matcher that does not match, so log the intercepted routes before increasing the number.
Source: https://docs.cypress.io/app/references/configuration
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