diff --git a/src/hubmap_translator.py b/src/hubmap_translator.py
index d2929bf3..1170a11d 100644
--- a/src/hubmap_translator.py
+++ b/src/hubmap_translator.py
@@ -9,11 +9,15 @@
 import sys
 import time
 from redis import Redis, ConnectionError, RedisError
+from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
 from yaml import safe_load, YAMLError
 from http.client import HTTPException
 from enum import Enum
 from types import MappingProxyType
 
+# Suppress InsecureRequestWarning warning when requesting status on https with ssl cert verify disabled
+requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(category=InsecureRequestWarning)
+
 # For reusing the app.cfg configuration when running indexer_base.py as script
 from flask import Flask, Response