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+pr: 116026
+summary: Change Elasticsearch timeouts to 429 response instead of 500
+area: Infra/Core
+type: breaking
+issues: []
+breaking:
+  title: Change Elasticsearch timeouts to 429 response instead of 500
+  area: Infra/Core
+  details: Please describe the details of this change for the release notes. You can
+    use asciidoc.
+  impact: Please describe the impact of this change to users
+  notable: false