diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c02cf4e..6e2fb07 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### 🏷️ Changed
 
 * Restart the actor when it has been errored for 300 seconds instead of 30
+* Set default DLI request timeout to 3 seconds.
 
 ### ⚙️ Engineering
 
diff --git a/src/lvmnps/tools.py b/src/lvmnps/tools.py
index 57e3281..33c3d23 100644
--- a/src/lvmnps/tools.py
+++ b/src/lvmnps/tools.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ class APIClient:
     base_url: str
     user: str
     password: SecretStr
+    timeout: float = 3
 
     auth_method: Literal["digest", "basic"] = "digest"
 
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ async def __aenter__(self):
             auth=auth,
             base_url=self.base_url,
             headers={},
+            timeout=self.timeout,
         )
 
         return self.client