diff --git a/deployment/update/update.py b/deployment/update/update.py
index e62a2f32f..686283636 100644
--- a/deployment/update/update.py
+++ b/deployment/update/update.py
@@ -141,6 +141,6 @@ def ping_newrelic(ctx):
         try:
             request = urllib2.Request('https://api.newrelic.com/deployments.xml',
                                       data, headers)
-            urllib2.urlopen(request)
+            urllib2.urlopen(request, timeout=30)
         except urllib2.URLError as exp:
             print 'Error notifying New Relic: {0}'.format(exp)
diff --git a/treeherder/etl/classification_mirroring.py b/treeherder/etl/classification_mirroring.py
index dc36350e5..3430aee6a 100644
--- a/treeherder/etl/classification_mirroring.py
+++ b/treeherder/etl/classification_mirroring.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class ElasticsearchDocRequest(object):
         es_url = "".join([es_host, es_endpoint])
         logger.info("Sending data to %s: %s", es_url, self.body)
         headers = {'Content-Type': 'text/plain', 'Connection': 'close'}
-        r = requests.post(es_url, data=json.dumps(self.body), headers=headers)
+        r = requests.post(es_url, data=json.dumps(self.body), headers=headers, timeout=settings.TREEHERDER_REQUESTS_TIMEOUT)
         try:
             r.raise_for_status()
         except requests.exceptions.HTTPError:
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ class BugzillaCommentRequest(object):
         credentials = {'login': settings.TBPLBOT_EMAIL, 'password': settings.TBPLBOT_PASSWORD}
         headers = {'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
         logger.info("Sending data to %s: %s", api_url, self.body)
-        r = requests.post(api_url, params=credentials, data=json.dumps(self.body), headers=headers)
+        r = requests.post(api_url, params=credentials, data=json.dumps(self.body), headers=headers, timeout=settings.TREEHERDER_REQUESTS_TIMEOUT)
         try:
             r.raise_for_status()
         except requests.exceptions.HTTPError:
diff --git a/treeherder/etl/mixins.py b/treeherder/etl/mixins.py
index c422c0629..6db100bcc 100644
--- a/treeherder/etl/mixins.py
+++ b/treeherder/etl/mixins.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class JsonExtractorMixin(object):
         req.add_header('Accept', 'application/json')
         req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
         try:
-            handler = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+            handler = urllib2.urlopen(req, timeout=settings.TREEHERDER_REQUESTS_TIMEOUT)
             encoding = handler.info().get('Content-Encoding')
             if encoding and 'gzip' in encoding:
                 buf = StringIO(handler.read())
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class JsonLoaderMixin(object):
         req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
         if not data:
             data = None
-        return urllib2.urlopen(req, json.dumps(data))
+        return urllib2.urlopen(req, json.dumps(data),  timeout=settings.TREEHERDER_REQUESTS_TIMEOUT)
 
 
 class ObjectstoreLoaderMixin(JsonLoaderMixin):