# Using rally with a managed elastic deployment

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-rally-with-a-managed-elastic-deployment/356012>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** rally\
**Created:** [March 22, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-rally-with-a-managed-elastic-deployment/356012 "2024-03-22T17:30:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![cvarano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cvarano/32/122082_2.png) [@cvarano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cvarano)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-rally-with-a-managed-elastic-deployment/356012/1 "2024-03-22T17:30:03Z")

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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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**Author:** ![json](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/json/32/4125_2.png) [@json](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/json)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-rally-with-a-managed-elastic-deployment/356012/2 "2024-03-22T21:31:07Z")

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Hi Chris, welcome back 🙂 Use the [`--pipeline=benchmark-only`](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pipelines.html?highlight=benchmark-only#benchmark-only) option when targeting an existing cluster. Take a look at the [client options docs](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_line_reference.html?highlight=authentication#client-options) for more information about applying authentication credentials.

Thank you,  
Jason

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**Author:** ![cvarano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cvarano/32/122082_2.png) [@cvarano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cvarano)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-rally-with-a-managed-elastic-deployment/356012/3 "2024-04-08T21:29:42Z")

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Thank you!

I see that es-rally depends on elasticsearch 8.6.1 ([link](https://github.com/elastic/rally/blob/c76c90ba1802338b7083d7f7fd0cb324cd510aed/pyproject.toml#L48)). 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](https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io/en/v8.13.0/)?

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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:** [May 6, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-rally-with-a-managed-elastic-deployment/356012/4 "2024-05-06T21:30:34Z")

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