Answers: <p>A <code>SECRET_KEY</code> has to be set in the <code>/opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/local_settings.py</code> file. More information could be found <a href="http://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config-local-settings.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
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Body: <p>We installed Graphite on our Linux server, and when we started running it, we saw the following warning from the <code>graphite-manage</code> script:</p>
  
  <pre><code> graphite-manage syncdb --noinput
  
   /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/graphite/settings.py:246: UserWarning: 
   SECRET_KEY is set to an unsafe default. This should be set in 
   local_settings.py for better security
   warn('SECRET_KEY is set to an unsafe default. This should be set in 
   local_settings.py for better security')
   Creating tables ...
   Installing custom SQL ...
   Installing indexes ...
   Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do you avoid this warning? What is needed to fix it?</p>
  
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Comments: May you extend on what you do not understand from the error message itself and what search/reading you did in graphite documentation which didn't solve the problem ?
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Title: How to avoid and fix the warning from Graphite-manage?
UserDisplayName: yael
ThreadText: # How to avoid and fix the warning from Graphite-manage?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-10-29)
  
  We installed Graphite on our Linux server, and when we started running it, we saw the following warning from the `graphite-manage` script:
  
  ```
   graphite-manage syncdb --noinput
  
   /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/graphite/settings.py:246: UserWarning: 
   SECRET_KEY is set to an unsafe default. This should be set in 
   local_settings.py for better security
   warn('SECRET_KEY is set to an unsafe default. This should be set in 
   local_settings.py for better security')
   Creating tables ...
   Installing custom SQL ...
   Installing indexes ...
   Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s
  
  ```
  
  How do you avoid this warning? What is needed to fix it?
  
  **Tags:** linux, python
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: May you extend on what you do not understand from the error message itself and what search/reading you did in graphite documentation which didn't solve the problem ?  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-10-29. Score: 1
  
  A `SECRET_KEY` has to be set in the `/opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/local_settings.py` file. More information could be found [here](http://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config-local-settings.html).
  
  
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