# Is it possible to run Rally against an Elastic Cloud Elasticsearch deployment?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rally-against-an-elastic-cloud-elasticsearch-deployment/209358>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** rally\
**Created:** [November 25, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rally-against-an-elastic-cloud-elasticsearch-deployment/209358 "2019-11-25T18:25:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ian\_Billett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ian_billett/32/58305_2.png) [@Ian\_Billett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ian_Billett)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rally-against-an-elastic-cloud-elasticsearch-deployment/209358/1 "2019-11-25T18:25:13Z")

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Hello 👋

Is it possible to run Rally benchmarks against my existing Elastic Cloud Elasticsearch 7.3 deployment?

If so, please can you point me towards documentation? I couldn't see anything obvious on [https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![Evgenia\_Badiyanova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/evgenia_badiyanova/32/84068_2.png) [@Evgenia\_Badiyanova](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Evgenia_Badiyanova)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rally-against-an-elastic-cloud-elasticsearch-deployment/209358/2 "2019-11-26T18:30:06Z")

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Hello Ian,

Thank you for your interest in Rally! Here are the documents about benchmarking the existing cluster and what you would need to set up: [https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes.html#benchmarking-an-existing-cluster](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes.html#benchmarking-an-existing-cluster)

Please make sure that you do not run Rally against your production cluster if you are just getting started with Rally.

Thank you,  
Evgenia

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-run-rally-against-an-elastic-cloud-elasticsearch-deployment/209358/3 "2019-12-24T18:30:12Z")

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