# Bulk insert requests not balanced across cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-insert-requests-not-balanced-across-cluster/89633
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 15, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-insert-requests-not-balanced-across-cluster/89633 "2017-06-15T22:31:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@knc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knc)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-insert-requests-not-balanced-across-cluster/89633/1 "2017-06-15T22:31:34Z")
I have a 3 node cluster with 5 primary shards and no replicas. My environment feeds bulk insert requests into the ES cluster. However, when I look at \_cat/thread\_pool, I see that one of my nodes always has its bulk threads active with quite the buildup in the queue. The other two nodes sometimes have threads active and no buildup in the queue.
My shards are equally distributed across the cluster.
How can I get my cluster to evenly spread out the bulk requests?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-insert-requests-not-balanced-across-cluster/89633/2 "2017-06-15T22:54:28Z")
Are you distributing the bulk requests to all nodes or only to a single one?
That may explain if you do the later.
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### Author:  [@knc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knc)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-insert-requests-not-balanced-across-cluster/89633/3 "2017-06-15T23:39:26Z")
I am using the endpoint provided by Elastic Cloud.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-insert-requests-not-balanced-across-cluster/89633/4 "2017-06-16T05:18:10Z")
Are you sending bulk requests in parallel across multiple connections?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-insert-requests-not-balanced-across-cluster/89633/5 "2017-07-14T05:31:44Z")
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