# Can i use multiple hosts of same elasticsearch cluster in Kibana 4
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-multiple-hosts-of-same-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kibana-4/26546
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 30, 2015, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-multiple-hosts-of-same-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kibana-4/26546 "2015-07-30T07:32:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Kuldip\_Madnani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kuldip_Madnani)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-multiple-hosts-of-same-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kibana-4/26546/1 "2015-07-30T07:32:32Z")
Hi,
I am planning to configure elasticsearch\_url property of kibana.yml to have multiple nodes of same elastic search cluster so that in case one node is down other one is utilized.Is there a way to do it without modifying elasticsearch cluster?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-multiple-hosts-of-same-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kibana-4/26546/2 "2015-07-30T23:10:30Z")
You won't need to do anything to your ES cluster to allow this.
However you may want to look at [this](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#load-balancing) as you cannot specify an array of hosts in the settings.
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### Author:  [@Astro-es](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Astro-es)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-multiple-hosts-of-same-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kibana-4/26546/3 "2015-11-16T09:26:34Z")
Hi @warkolm,
I tried to setup cluster with client node. But whenever the elaticsearch on local machine is stopped the dashbaord stops and Kibana shows `unable to connect to Elasticsearch at http://localhost:9200`
How to configure Kibana to be functional even the ES on local machine where Kibana is running goes down? The Kibana isn't picking up new master from cluster once failover is happened.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-multiple-hosts-of-same-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kibana-4/26546/4 "2015-11-16T09:47:32Z")
Please start your own thread.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-multiple-hosts-of-same-elasticsearch-cluster-in-kibana-4/26546/5 "2017-07-06T14:09:00Z")