diff --git a/hdf-loader/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/loader/hdf/config/LoaderConfig.java b/hdf-loader/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/loader/hdf/config/LoaderConfig.java
index 3b706faff..ac1c05a76 100644
--- a/hdf-loader/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/loader/hdf/config/LoaderConfig.java
+++ b/hdf-loader/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/loader/hdf/config/LoaderConfig.java
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ public class LoaderConfig {
         return configMap.get(key).toString();
     }
 
-    public List<Map<String,String>> getDatasets() {
-        return (List<Map<String,String>>) configMap.get("datasets");
+    public List<String> getDatasets() {
+        return (List<String>) configMap.get("datasets");
     }
 
     public String getFormat() {
diff --git a/hdf-loader/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/loader/hdf/readers/Hdf5Reader.java b/hdf-loader/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/loader/hdf/readers/Hdf5Reader.java
index 657fd7b0b..a02575a79 100644
--- a/hdf-loader/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/loader/hdf/readers/Hdf5Reader.java
+++ b/hdf-loader/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/loader/hdf/readers/Hdf5Reader.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import ncsa.hdf.hdf5lib.exceptions.HDF5LibraryException;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
 
 public class Hdf5Reader implements HdfReader {
     private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(Hdf5Reader.class);
+    public static final String ALL = "all";
     private VectorWriter writer;
     private final LoaderConfig config;
     private final ExecutorService executorService;
@@ -53,12 +55,36 @@ public class Hdf5Reader implements HdfReader {
     public void read() throws HDF5LibraryException {
         String sourceFile = config.getSourceFile();
         int fileId = H5.H5Fopen(sourceFile, HDF5Constants.H5F_ACC_RDONLY, HDF5Constants.H5P_DEFAULT);
-        for (Map<String,String> dataset : config.getDatasets()) {
+        List<String> datasets = config.getDatasets();
+        if (datasets.get(0).equalsIgnoreCase(ALL)) {
+            try {
+                int numObjects = H5.H5Fget_obj_count(fileId, HDF5Constants.H5F_OBJ_ALL);
+                String[] objNames = new String[numObjects];
+                int[] objTypes = new int[numObjects];
+                long[] refArray = new long[numObjects];
+                //H5.H5Fget_obj_ids(fileId, HDF5Constants.H5F_OBJ_ALL, numObjects, objNames, objTypes);
+                H5.H5Gget_obj_info_all(fileId, null, objNames, objTypes, refArray);
+
+                for (int i = 0; i < numObjects; i++) {
+                    String objName = objNames[i];
+                    int objType = objTypes[i];
+                    if (objType == HDF5Constants.H5G_DATASET) {
+                        datasets.add(objName);
+                    }
+                }
+            } catch (HDF5Exception e) {
+                logger.error("Error getting all datasets from file: " + sourceFile, e);
+            }
+        }
+        for (String dataset : config.getDatasets()) {
+            if (dataset.equalsIgnoreCase(ALL)) {
+                continue;
+            }
             executorService.submit(() -> {
                 // Your lambda code that runs in a separate thread for each object
-                logger.info("Processing dataset: " + dataset.get("name"));
+                logger.info("Processing dataset: " + dataset);
                 try {
-                    int datasetId = H5.H5Dopen(fileId, dataset.get("name"));
+                    int datasetId = H5.H5Dopen(fileId, dataset);
                     // Get the dataspace of the dataset
                     int dataspaceId = H5.H5Dget_space(datasetId);
                     // Get the number of dimensions in the dataspace
diff --git a/hdf-loader/src/main/resources/config.yaml b/hdf-loader/src/main/resources/config.yaml
index 11f1be3e5..16869b8c6 100644
--- a/hdf-loader/src/main/resources/config.yaml
+++ b/hdf-loader/src/main/resources/config.yaml
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 format: HDF5
-sourceFile: /home/mwolters138/Downloads/embeddings.h5
+sourceFile: /home/mwolters138/Downloads/NEONDSTowerTemperatureData.hdf5
 datasets:
-  - name: dataset1
-    type: string
-  - name: dataset2
-    type: int
+  - all
 embedding: word2vec
 writer: filewriter
 astra: