# Trouble configuring datastore

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-configuring-datastore/242206>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** rally\
**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-configuring-datastore/242206 "2020-07-22T13:53:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![lzukel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lzukel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lzukel)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-configuring-datastore/242206/1 "2020-07-22T13:53:26Z")

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I am unable to use an existing elasticsearch cluster as a datastore. I am unable to find how to disable certificate verification for the datastore, thus the only way I can run rally is to use the in-memory datastore.

I can set verify\_ssl False for the cluster that the tests are being run against. But unable to set the value for the datastore.

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**Author:** ![lzukel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lzukel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lzukel)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-configuring-datastore/242206/2 "2020-07-22T14:33:25Z")

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Error from Rally:

```auto
[ERROR] Cannot race. Error in race control (('Could not connect to your Elasticsearch metrics store. Please check that it is running on host [server0080] at port [9200] or fix the configuration in [/root/.rally/rally.ini].', None))

```

From rally logs:

```auto
2020-07-22 14:26:44,844 ActorAddr-(T|:38297)/PID:14908 esrally.client INFO Creating ES client connected to [{'host': 'server0080', 'port': '9200'}] with options [{'use_ssl': True, 'verify_certs': True, 'timeout': 120, 'basic_auth_user': 'admin', 'basic_auth_password': ' *****'}]
2020-07-22 14:26:44,844 ActorAddr-(T|:38297)/PID:14908 esrally.client INFO SSL support: on
2020-07-22 14:26:44,850 ActorAddr-(T|:38297)/PID:14908 esrally.client INFO SSL certificate verification: on
2020-07-22 14:26:44,850 ActorAddr-(T|:38297)/PID:14908 esrally.client INFO SSL client authentication: off
2020-07-22 14:26:44,850 ActorAddr-(T|:38297)/PID:14908 esrally.client INFO HTTP basic authentication: on
2020-07-22 14:26:44,850 ActorAddr-(T|:38297)/PID:14908 esrally.client INFO HTTP compression: off
2020-07-22 14:26:44,894 ActorAddr-(T|:38297)/PID:14908 esrally.metrics ERROR Could not connect to your Elasticsearch metrics store. Please check that it is running on host [server0080] at port [9200] or fix the configuration in [/root/.rally/rally.ini].
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ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:877)

```

Rally.ini:

```auto
[meta]
config.version = 17

[system]
env.name = gis

[node]
root.dir = /root/.rally/benchmarks
src.root.dir = /root/.rally/benchmarks/src

[source]
remote.repo.url = https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch.git
elasticsearch.src.subdir = elasticsearch

[benchmarks]
local.dataset.cache = /root/.rally/benchmarks/data

[reporting]
#datastore.type = in-memory
datastore.type = elasticsearch
datastore.host = server0080
datastore.port = 9200
datastore.secure = True
datastore.user = admin
datastore.password = *****

[tracks]
default.url = https://github.com/elastic/rally-tracks

[teams]
default.url = https://github.com/elastic/rally-teams

[defaults]
preserve_benchmark_candidate = False

[distributions]
release.cache = true

```

Rally run command:

```auto
esrally --track-path=/root/.rally/benchmarks/tracks/default --offline --pipeline=benchmark-only --target-hosts=elasticsearch:443/es_search --client-options="use_ssl:true,verify_certs:false,basic_auth_user:'admin',basic_auth_password:' ******'"

```

This configuration works when datastore is in-memory... But unable to store results in elasticsearch cluster, due to unable to disable verify\_certs for the datastore...

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**Author:** ![baz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/baz/32/5183_2.png) [@baz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baz)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-configuring-datastore/242206/3 "2020-07-22T14:38:52Z")

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Hi,

you are looking for `datastore.ssl.verification_mode` which should be set to `none` in the case that you do not want to verify\_certs. [See the docs here](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/configuration.html#configuration-options) for more information.

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**Author:** ![lzukel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lzukel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lzukel)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-configuring-datastore/242206/4 "2020-07-22T14:50:39Z")

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Thank you this solved my issue

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**Author:** ![baz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/baz/32/5183_2.png) [@baz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baz)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-configuring-datastore/242206/5 "2020-07-22T14:51:50Z")

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excellent!!

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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:** [August 19, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-configuring-datastore/242206/6 "2020-08-19T14:52:01Z")

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