I am performing an http request to the LibreNMS API via the following Python code:

import requests
TOKEN = './token.json'
def get_request(request_type):
    url = f'http://192.168.1.141/api/v0/{request_type}'
    with open(TOKEN,'r') as file:
        headers = json.load(file)
    response = requests.get(url,headers=headers)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        pass
    else:
        print(f"Failed to pull for {request_type}: {response.status_code}")
    return response.json()
if __name__ == '__main__':
    dat = get_request('alerts') # pull alerts

The script runs perfectly on my local machine and quite fast. However when I try to deploy the scrip as a Google Cloud Function then requests.get(url,headers=headers) seems to time out. In the cloud logs of the function I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.11/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 203, in _new_conn
    sock = connection.create_connection( 
"Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.11/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 703, in urlopen
    httplib_response = self._make_request("
 "Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.11/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 489, in send
    resp = conn.urlopen("
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/layers/google.python.pip/pip/lib/python3.11/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 2529, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()"

I have the same versions of requests==2.28.1 and urllib3==1.26.14 installed on my local machine and in the requirements.txt file of the cloud function. I thought the problem might lie here.

I am unsure if a cloud function can perform http requests to non-Google services. Perhaps this is the issue.

Please help me understand what is wrong with my function and/or deployment.

Update

It seems that the issue lies within the fact that the address 192.168.1.141 was local. I have since replaced it with librenms.bctechnologies.co.za:8050. However, it seems like this too is not public as response = requests.get(url,headers=headers) keeps timing out.