Thanks for the reply!
I am using nginx, and this is what I am getting in the nginx error.log.
2016/01/19 06:54:36 [error] 28121#0: *37 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: XXX.XXX.67.2, server: 10.240.0.3, request: "POST /api/v1/admin/save_config HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://10.240.0.3:8065/api/v1/admin/save_config", host: "XXX.XXX.137.82", referrer: "http://XXX.XXX.137.82/admin_console/team_settings/?session_token_index=0"
I found this site here that suggested upping the timeout for read proxy in nginx, but that just took longer to error 