diff --git a/app/com/linkedin/drelephant/spark/fetchers/SparkFetcher.scala b/app/com/linkedin/drelephant/spark/fetchers/SparkFetcher.scala
index 4f2020237..7be4f33fb 100644
--- a/app/com/linkedin/drelephant/spark/fetchers/SparkFetcher.scala
+++ b/app/com/linkedin/drelephant/spark/fetchers/SparkFetcher.scala
@@ -141,6 +141,6 @@ object SparkFetcher {
   }
 
   val SPARK_EVENT_LOG_ENABLED_KEY = "spark.eventLog.enabled"
-  val DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = Duration(60, SECONDS)
+  val DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = Duration(5, SECONDS)
   val LOG_LOCATION_URI_XML_FIELD = "event_log_location_uri"
 }