## TL;DR

For "requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout: HTTPConnectionPool(host='telemetry.crewai.com', port=4318): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/traces (C": maintainer-side guidance and a reporter-confirmed fix: set OTEL_SDK_DISABLED [True] in the.env file to disable OpenTelemetry entirely (reporter kangISU: 'Put this in.env file; worked for me').

```text
requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout: HTTPConnectionPool(host='telemetry.crewai.com', port=4318): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/traces (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError([urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f34caf38280], 'Connection to telemetry.crewai.com timed out. (connect timeout=10)')
```

## Steps

1. Maintainer-side guidance and a reporter-confirmed fix: set OTEL_SDK_DISABLED [True] in the .env file to disable OpenTelemetry entirely (reporter kangISU: 'Put this in .env file; worked for me'). A crewai team member pointed to the telemetry docs, which document disabling telemetry for users who don't want trace data sent to telemetry.crewai.com.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Issue crewAIInc/crewAI#254 (closed, 33 comments): Hello , I hope this message finds you well. Use this skill when you run into "Connection Timeout Error with telemetry.crewai.com".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

Is as follows: requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout: HTTPConnectionPool(host='telemetry.crewai.com', port=4318): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/traces (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError([urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f34caf38280], 'Connection to telemetry.crewai.com timed out. (connect

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## Vectle citations

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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