Am running the stress with the below command and getting exceptions, it created the keyspace and table
$ cassandra-stress user profile=/home/ec2-user/labwork/labwork/TestProfile.yaml ops\(insert=1000000,user_by_email=100000\) -node **** -mode thrift user=cassandra password=*** Generating batches with [1..1] partitions and [1..1] rows (of [1..1] total rows in the partitions) java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.StressSettings.getRawThriftClient(StressSettings.java:160) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.StressSettings.getSimpleThriftClient(StressSettings.java:121) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.StressSettings.getThriftClient(StressSettings.java:101) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.StressProfile.getInsert(StressProfile.java:491) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.SettingsCommandUser$1.get(SettingsCommandUser.java:83) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.SettingsCommandUser$1.get(SettingsCommandUser.java:79) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.operations.SampledOpDistributionFactory$1.get(SampledOpDistributionFactory.java:81) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.StressAction.run(StressAction.java:222) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.StressAction.warmup(StressAction.java:110) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.StressAction.run(StressAction.java:61) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.Stress.run(Stress.java:133) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.Stress.main(Stress.java:61) Caused by: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused) at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:187) at org.apache.thrift.transport.TFramedTransport.open(TFramedTransport.java:81) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.TFramedTransportFactory.openTransport(TFramedTransportFactory.java:42) at org.apache.cassandra.stress.settings.StressSettings.getRawThriftClient(StressSettings.java:140) ... 11 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:607) at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:182)