# Can kibana point to 2 elasticsearch instances?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-point-to-2-elasticsearch-instances/31660>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 5, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-point-to-2-elasticsearch-instances/31660 "2015-10-05T20:33:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![michaellizhou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michaellizhou/32/4143_2.png) [@michaellizhou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaellizhou)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-point-to-2-elasticsearch-instances/31660/1 "2015-10-05T20:33:48Z")

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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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**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:** [October 5, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-point-to-2-elasticsearch-instances/31660/2 "2015-10-05T21:06:39Z")

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

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**Author:** ![michaellizhou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michaellizhou/32/4143_2.png) [@michaellizhou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaellizhou)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-point-to-2-elasticsearch-instances/31660/3 "2015-10-05T21:34:43Z")

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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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**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:** [October 5, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-point-to-2-elasticsearch-instances/31660/4 "2015-10-05T21:43:44Z")

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Yes, that's correct.

Localhost is just 127.0.0.1.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-point-to-2-elasticsearch-instances/31660/5 "2017-07-06T14:11:58Z")

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