Configuration files idea: should we warn if you configure a property that we don't know? Opensearch does this and it helps to realize you are doing something that isn't working. Last time I've seen an usage of disable_security in datanode, but the actual property is called insecure_startup . By triggering an error or at least warning, we'd tell the user that they are trying to do something that we don't understand. It would remove some portion of trial and error during configuration.