diff --git a/todo-app/src/main/resources/application.properties b/todo-app/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 6169f56d..d2272468 100644
--- a/todo-app/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/todo-app/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ spring.jpa.show-sql = true
 spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto = update
 spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL8Dialect
 
+# https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP#infrequently-used
+spring.datasource.hikari.initializationFailTimeout=60000
+
 ## Configure info endpoint
 info.app.name=PSI Todo 
 info.app.description=PSI Todo Rest API