Using rally with a managed elastic deployment

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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We have a deployment in Elastic cloud running Elasticsearch, but I don't see in the Rally docs how to point to or auth Elastic-managed deployments; I only see local ES setup and ES Serverless setup.

Any guidance appreciated, thank you!

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Hi Chris, welcome back :slight_smile: Use the --pipeline=benchmark-only option when targeting an existing cluster. Take a look at the client options docs for more information about applying authentication credentials.

Thank you,
Jason

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Thank you!

I see that es-rally depends on elasticsearch 8.6.1 (link). We are using the latest features of elasticsearch, such as Elser. Will this cause issues? Is there a reason rally is not updated to use the 8.13 client?