diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/guest-call-timeout-2781a57ca8feb89a.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/guest-call-timeout-2781a57ca8feb89a.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e392bc4cad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/guest-call-timeout-2781a57ca8feb89a.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+fixes:
+  - Increased agent_call_high_timeout config setting to 10 minutes.  This
+    configures the length of time that the taskmanager will wait for an
+    asynchronous guest agent call to complete.
diff --git a/trove/common/cfg.py b/trove/common/cfg.py
index 0e189de107..6043d40442 100644
--- a/trove/common/cfg.py
+++ b/trove/common/cfg.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ common_opts = [
                help="Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for Guest Agent 'quick'"
                     "requests (such as retrieving a list of users or "
                     "databases)."),
-    cfg.IntOpt('agent_call_high_timeout', default=60 * 5,
+    cfg.IntOpt('agent_call_high_timeout', default=60 * 10,
                help="Maximum time (in seconds) to wait for Guest Agent 'slow' "
                     "requests (such as restarting the database)."),
     cfg.IntOpt('agent_replication_snapshot_timeout', default=36000,