diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a1df36ce..5deecb80 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ The format is roughly based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/
 
 - Dockerfile: switch to `python:3.9-slim-bullseye` base image
 - Parallelize `/jobs` requests to upstream back-ends ([#28](https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-aggregator/issues/28))
+- Increase timeout on getting batch job logs to 120s ([#128](https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-aggregator/issues/128))
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/src/openeo_aggregator/backend.py b/src/openeo_aggregator/backend.py
index 7f405d7e..7b02a50d 100644
--- a/src/openeo_aggregator/backend.py
+++ b/src/openeo_aggregator/backend.py
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 import openeo_aggregator.egi
 from openeo_aggregator.caching import Memoizer, json_serde, memoizer_from_config
 from openeo_aggregator.config import (
+    CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_JOB_LOGS,
     CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_JOB_START,
     CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESULT,
     AggregatorConfig,
@@ -888,8 +889,11 @@ def get_log_entries(
         level: Optional[str] = None,
     ) -> Iterable[dict]:
         con, backend_job_id = self._get_connection_and_backend_job_id(aggregator_job_id=job_id)
+        # Use parenthesized context managers, see #127
         with con.authenticated_from_request(request=flask.request, user=User(user_id)), \
-                self._translate_job_errors(job_id=job_id):
+                self._translate_job_errors(job_id=job_id), \
+                con.override(default_timeout=CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_JOB_LOGS), \
+                TimingLogger(title=f"Get log entries for {job_id}", logger=_log.debug):
             return con.job(backend_job_id).logs(offset=offset, level=level)
 
 
diff --git a/src/openeo_aggregator/config.py b/src/openeo_aggregator/config.py
index f6b0d1d1..2a5e5ea9 100644
--- a/src/openeo_aggregator/config.py
+++ b/src/openeo_aggregator/config.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_INIT = 12.5
 CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_RESULT = 15 * 60
 CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_JOB_START = 5 * 60
+CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_JOB_LOGS = 2 * 60
 
 STREAM_CHUNK_SIZE_DEFAULT = 10 * 1024