# Can Two Kibana Instances point to Single Big Elasticsearch Cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [December 12, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-two-kibana-instances-point-to-single-big-elasticsearch-cluster/68778 "2016-12-12T21:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NITIN-BHAISARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@NITIN-BHAISARE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NITIN-BHAISARE)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-two-kibana-instances-point-to-single-big-elasticsearch-cluster/68778/1 "2016-12-12T21:31:24Z")
Hello, I want to use two kibana instances for single elasticsearch cluster. I have three nodes under the elasticsearch cluster. Thanks Nitin Bhaisare ---
**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-two-kibana-instances-point-to-single-big-elasticsearch-cluster/68778/2 "2016-12-12T21:43:46Z")
Yep, that is possible. Kibana stores state in an index called .kibana by default, if you want these two instance to share data you can leave it as is. If you want them to be separate, you'll have to change `kibana.index` in your kibana.yml. If these kibana instances are running on the same machine, you'll also want to make sure they don't have conflicting log and pid paths in kibana.yml. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-two-kibana-instances-point-to-single-big-elasticsearch-cluster/68778/3 "2017-01-09T21:43:47Z")
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