diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 0a598f9..c0af32c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           # PyYaml is required until docker-compose is migrated to v2
           pip install pyyaml==5.3.1
-          pip install docker==6.1.3 docker-compose
+          pip install docker==6.1.3 docker-compose requests==2.31.0
           poetry install --no-interaction --no-ansi
           docker-compose version
           poetry run python -m pytest
diff --git a/app/lib/node_utils.py b/app/lib/node_utils.py
index d15fe27..53e5618 100644
--- a/app/lib/node_utils.py
+++ b/app/lib/node_utils.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 def get_node_health(node_http_endpoint):
     try:
-        return requests.get(node_http_endpoint + '/health', headers={'Content-type': 'application/json'})
+        return requests.get(node_http_endpoint + '/health', headers={'Content-type': 'application/json'}, timeout=1)
     except Exception as err:
         log.error("Failed to call /health on {}; Error: {}".format(node_http_endpoint, err))
         return False
diff --git a/app/lib/session_keys.py b/app/lib/session_keys.py
index 735a154..863d5f6 100644
--- a/app/lib/session_keys.py
+++ b/app/lib/session_keys.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ def rotate_node_session_keys(node_http_endpoint):
     try:
         rotate_keys = requests.post(node_http_endpoint,
                                     data='{"id":1, "jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "author_rotateKeys", "params":[]}',
-                                    headers={'Content-type': 'application/json'})
+                                    headers={'Content-type': 'application/json'}, timeout=10)
         if rotate_keys.status_code == 200:
             log.info("{} session keys rotated successfully".format(node_http_endpoint))
             return rotate_keys.json()['result']