diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 71c9877b9..adb96872e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 ### Improvements
 ### Bugfix
 
+* fixes a bug in the `http_output` used by the http generator, where the timeout parameter does only set the read_timeout not the write_timeout
+
 ## 13.1.0
 ### Features
 
diff --git a/logprep/connector/http/output.py b/logprep/connector/http/output.py
index 7c3d393c2..4ba65a8cf 100644
--- a/logprep/connector/http/output.py
+++ b/logprep/connector/http/output.py
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ def store_custom(self, document: dict | tuple | list, target: str) -> None:
                     headers=self._headers,
                     verify=False,
                     auth=(self.user, self.password),
-                    timeout=self.timeout,
+                    timeout=(self.timeout, self.timeout),
                     data=request_data,
                 )
                 logger.debug("Servers response code is: %i", response.status_code)