# Problem with starting rally daemon

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-starting-rally-daemon/203540>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** rally\
**Created:** [October 15, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-starting-rally-daemon/203540 "2019-10-15T00:44:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Akshay\_Raj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Akshay\_Raj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akshay_Raj)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-starting-rally-daemon/203540/1 "2019-10-15T00:44:51Z")

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Hi,

I have a cluster setup on AWS that I am trying to benchmark. Towards this, I have a coordinator instance and 2 load drivers setup. These systems all have rally setup and rally starts up fine. However when I try running something like this:  
[rally1@rally ~]$ esrallyd start --node-ip=172.10.11.12 --coordinator-ip=172.10.11.12  
-bash: esrallyd: command not found

I understand that the rally daemon(esrallyd) should be installed along with esrally.

Could someone pls provide guidance regarding this?

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**Author:** ![dliappis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dliappis/32/56174_2.png) [@dliappis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dliappis)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-starting-rally-daemon/203540/2 "2019-10-15T06:44:19Z")

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Hello @Akshay_Raj,

Can you provide some more information about what is the [method you used to install](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install.html#installing-rally) Rally?

e.g. did you use `pip3 install esrally`, did you prefix the command with `sudo` or did you use `--user`? Finally what does `which esrally` say?

Dimitris

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**Author:** ![Akshay\_Raj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Akshay\_Raj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akshay_Raj)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-starting-rally-daemon/203540/3 "2019-10-15T17:29:26Z")

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Hi Dimitrios,

I installed esrally via pip3 install esrally. I used sudo. When I try to run the rally daemon(esrallyd), i get a command not found error. I believe it wasn't installed when esrally was installed...

Akshay

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**Author:** ![dliappis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dliappis/32/56174_2.png) [@dliappis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dliappis)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-starting-rally-daemon/203540/4 "2019-10-17T06:22:40Z")

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To help troubleshoot this, can you provide exact reproduction steps please?

Ideally you can try reproducing it in a [vagrant box](https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search), but at minimum, we'd need:

- the precise Linux distribution and version or in the case of AWS the AMI image.
- steps to install Rally after operating system has started e.g. `sudo su -` and then `apt-get update && apt-get install -y gcc python3-pip python3-dev && pip3 install esrally`

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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:** [November 14, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-starting-rally-daemon/203540/5 "2019-11-14T06:22:42Z")

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