diff --git a/charts/galoy/templates/websocket-ingress.yaml b/charts/galoy/templates/websocket-ingress.yaml
index fd21daa547..ff65d1d799 100644
--- a/charts/galoy/templates/websocket-ingress.yaml
+++ b/charts/galoy/templates/websocket-ingress.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ metadata:
     cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: {{ .Values.galoy.websocket.ingress.clusterIssuer }}
     nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-read-timeout: "3600" # 1 hour
     nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-send-timeout: "3600" # 1 hour
-    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-connect-timeout: "1s"
+    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-connect-timeout: "5s"
     nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-next-upstream: "error timeout"
     nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-next-upstream-tries: "3"
     nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/limit-rpm: "10"