diff --git a/run_kraken.py b/run_kraken.py
index e8ddda27..b78491f9 100644
--- a/run_kraken.py
+++ b/run_kraken.py
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ def main(options, command: Optional[str], out: Optional[dict] = None) -> int:
         check_critical_alerts = get_yaml_item_value(
             config["performance_monitoring"], "check_critical_alerts", False
         )
+        config["telemetry"] = get_yaml_item_value(config, "telemetry", {})
         telemetry_api_url = config["telemetry"].get("api_url", "")
         telemetry_enabled = config["telemetry"].get("enabled", True)
         
diff --git a/tests/test_run_kraken.py b/tests/test_run_kraken.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..98aab312
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_run_kraken.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch, mock_open
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+from run_kraken import main
+
+
+class TestRunKraken(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    @patch('run_kraken.yaml.safe_load')
+    @patch('run_kraken.os.path.isfile')
+    @patch('builtins.open', new_callable=mock_open)
+    def test_main_without_telemetry_config(self, mock_file, mock_isfile, mock_yaml_load):
+        """
+        Test that main() doesn't crash when config has no telemetry section
+        """
+        mock_isfile.side_effect = lambda p: p == "/fake/config.yaml"
+        mock_yaml_load.return_value = {
+            "kraken": {"rollback_versions_directory": "/tmp/krkn-test-rollback"},
+            "tunings": {},
+            "performance_monitoring": {},
+            "elastic": {},
+        }
+
+        options = SimpleNamespace(cfg="/fake/config.yaml")
+        result = main(options, None)
+
+        self.assertEqual(result, -1)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()