diff --git a/ceilometer/polling/dynamic_pollster.py b/ceilometer/polling/dynamic_pollster.py
index e11dc1791a..df2d754a09 100644
--- a/ceilometer/polling/dynamic_pollster.py
+++ b/ceilometer/polling/dynamic_pollster.py
@@ -411,7 +411,8 @@ class PollsterDefinitions(object):
         PollsterDefinition(name='user_id_attribute', default="user_id"),
         PollsterDefinition(name='resource_id_attribute', default="id"),
         PollsterDefinition(name='project_id_attribute', default="project_id"),
-        PollsterDefinition(name='headers')]
+        PollsterDefinition(name='headers'),
+        PollsterDefinition(name='timeout', default=30)]
 
     extra_definitions = []
 
@@ -613,6 +614,7 @@ class PollsterSampleGatherer(object):
         request_headers = self.definitions.configurations['headers']
         if request_headers:
             request_args['headers'] = request_headers
+        request_args['timeout'] = self.definitions.configurations['timeout']
         return request_args
 
     def get_request_linked_samples_url(self, kwargs):
diff --git a/doc/source/admin/telemetry-dynamic-pollster.rst b/doc/source/admin/telemetry-dynamic-pollster.rst
index 12999c6c03..9a321cb63e 100644
--- a/doc/source/admin/telemetry-dynamic-pollster.rst
+++ b/doc/source/admin/telemetry-dynamic-pollster.rst
@@ -190,6 +190,14 @@ attributes to define a dynamic pollster:
     headers:
       "x-openstack-nova-api-version": "2.46"
 
+*  ``timeout``: optional parameter. Defines the request timeout for the
+   requests executed by the dynamic pollsters to gather data. The default
+   timeout value is 30 seconds. If it is set to `None`, this means that the
+   request never times out on the client side. Therefore, one might have
+   problems if the server never closes the connection. The pollsters are
+   executed serially, one after the other. Therefore, if the request hangs,
+   all pollsters (including the non-dynamic ones) will stop executing.
+
 The complete YAML configuration to gather data from Magnum (that has been used
 as an example) is the following: