Using Haystack offline

[aschatzHM]

Hi there,

I am trying to use Haystack offline. Everything works out except for one thing.

When I create a SQLDocumentStore (or any kind of store):

from haystack.document_stores import SQLDocumentStore
document_store = SQLDocumentStore(url="sqlite:///test.db")

The store is created correctly but I also get the following message:

ERROR:posthog:error uploading: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='tm.hs.deepset.ai', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /batch/ (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x000001E0C98C0BB0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed'))

Why is it trying to establish a connection and can I prevent it from doing that?

[anakin87]

Hello @aschatzHM!

As you can read in the docs, Haystack relies on anonymous usage statistics to support continuous software improvements for all its users. The telemetry module requires an Internet connection.

If you want to disable telemetry, you can do it within Python:

from haystack.telemetry import disable_telemetry
disable_telemetry()

Alternatively, you can set the environment variable HAYSTACK_TELEMETRY_ENABLED to "False".

[aschatzHM]

@julian-risch this is what I found out:

The environment variable is set properly. The problem seems to be, that the config file is created again...

[flawaetz]

I'm seeing the same behavior. I confirmed the config file is not present before running script and have HAYSTACK_TELEMETRY_ENABLED as an ENV in my Dockerfile. By shimming a log statement into

haystack/haystack/telemetry.py

Line 165 in 50f3437

elif CONFIG_PATH.exists():

I can see that a new config file is transiently created and the contents are just a user_id: parameter.

[ZanSara]

Hey @flawaetz I think we agree this is an actual bug with telemetry. Did you already open an issue? Can I convert this discussion into one if not? This way we will be able to properly address it.

[flawaetz]

Hi @ZanSara I have not opened an issue so converting this discussion into one makes sense.
Also want to clarify in my earlier comment that I had HAYSTACK_TELEMETRY_ENABLED set to False in env.

[ZanSara]

#3439

[julian-risch]

We found the problem and it should be fixed now on the main branch after we just merged #3465
I tested it locally by running:

rm ~/.haystack/config.yaml
export HAYSTACK_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=False
python
from haystack.document_stores import InMemoryDocumentStore
document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore()

The error message doesn't show up anymore for me. Please let me know if you are still facing this issue.

[julian-risch]

@aschatzHM @flawaetz Thanks again for making us aware of this issue! 👍

[prathmeshgd]

thanku so much , it took me lot of time to get this solution.thank you