# After renaming elastic nodes they show twice in kibana monitoring

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-renaming-elastic-nodes-they-show-twice-in-kibana-monitoring/231493>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-renaming-elastic-nodes-they-show-twice-in-kibana-monitoring/231493 "2020-05-07T09:05:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kosodrom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kosodrom/32/99278_2.png) [@Kosodrom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kosodrom)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-renaming-elastic-nodes-they-show-twice-in-kibana-monitoring/231493/1 "2020-05-07T09:05:48Z")

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Hi all,

for all 3 elastic nodes i changed the

`node.aname`

and

```
discovery.seed_hosts
cluster.initial_master_nodes

```

to dns names instead of ip adresses.

After I have restarted the elastic nodes they all appear twice in kibana now, even though kibana still shows 3 total nodes:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/e/1eedf5e4c7d00a521fa9e42d3b66f107d974d75e.png)

Do you have any idea why it happened and how I can make kibana to show the nodes only once in the monitoring.

thanks

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**Author:** ![Kosodrom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kosodrom/32/99278_2.png) [@Kosodrom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kosodrom)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-renaming-elastic-nodes-they-show-twice-in-kibana-monitoring/231493/2 "2020-05-07T09:35:56Z")

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Ok now after some time the duplicates disappeared.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-renaming-elastic-nodes-they-show-twice-in-kibana-monitoring/231493/3 "2020-05-07T23:43:31Z")

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Yep, they will age out eventually 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-renaming-elastic-nodes-they-show-twice-in-kibana-monitoring/231493/4 "2020-06-04T23:43:34Z")

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