# Can we have master and ingest nodes set true on same nodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 1, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055 "2018-02-01T15:50:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gaurav\_Harsola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Gaurav\_Harsola](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Harsola)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055/1 "2018-02-01T15:50:50Z")
Hi, I have 5 nodes cluster, where i kept 3 nodes , which serve as master and ingest nodes and rest 2 nodes act as only data nodes. Is this good practise? How the flow will be ? and do we need one more node coordinating node where all three options (M,I and D) will be false. Thanks Gaurav ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055/2 "2018-02-01T23:24:33Z")
> [@Gaurav\_Harsola](#): > > Is this good practise? Not really. If you have dedicated master then that is all they should do, no indexing, no ingesting. I don't know your use case, but for such a small cluster you are probably better off making all nodes master+data+ingest. ---
**Author:** ![Gaurav\_Harsola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Gaurav\_Harsola](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Harsola)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055/3 "2018-02-02T02:55:40Z")
we have huge data and cluster size is increasing we are planning to move it to 10 node cluster .so is it good to keep 3 master node and 1 ingest node and rest as data nodes.Let me know your opinion Thanks ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055/4 "2018-02-02T03:36:03Z")
Yes, that would be a sane idea. ---
**Author:** ![Gaurav\_Harsola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Gaurav\_Harsola](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Harsola)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055/5 "2018-02-02T03:41:03Z")
Any suggestion on coordinating node.Should it be there ? and if yes then how many nodes ? Thanks ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055/6 "2018-02-02T03:41:37Z")
If you want one, start with just that one and see how it performs. ---
**Author:** ![Gaurav\_Harsola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Gaurav\_Harsola](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Harsola)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055/7 "2018-02-02T03:44:27Z")
so how ingest node and coordinating node differ in flow..I am little confused in both.Let suppose, if we have 3 node master, 1 ingest node, 1 coordinating node and 5 data node ccluster Thanks ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055/8 "2018-02-02T05:10:07Z")
Ingest node - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/ingest.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/ingest.html) Coordinating node - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/modules-node.html#coordinating-node](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/modules-node.html#coordinating-node) Ingest is for processing of data into the cluster. Coordinating is for querying of that data, kind of like a load balancer. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-master-and-ingest-nodes-set-true-on-same-nodes/118055/9 "2018-03-02T05:10:35Z")
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