Can kibana point to 2 elasticsearch instances?

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Basically the title... can kibana point to 2 elasticsearch instances? What I have done is have 2 elasticsearch instances running but without a 3rd for load balancing if one does down kibana would not be able to query. So what should I do? Is the 3rd elastic node necessary to have HA?

Thanks!

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Some people use a client node running alongside KB, then they just point to localhost.

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Client side node? Is this the same as running an ES node along side KB where node.data and node.master is set to false? I was trying to avoid this because of the extra overhead of spinning another instance. What do you mean by point to localhost? Doc would help.

Thanks,
Mike

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Yes, that's correct.

Localhost is just 127.0.0.1.