Cluster with 3 nodes - do I need kibana on 3 of them?

[manosmustang (manos)]

Hi,

I have a cluster with 3 nodes. All three are master and data. I will add two more data nodes later.

I need to know if in order to have a fault-tolerant cluster do I need to install kibana at all master nodes? Is it better to have one more node only for kibana (so I can see the cluster from there)?

Of course if there is any URL where I can find these info would be great.

Thank you all

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

Typically you don't install Kibana on the same host as Elasticsearch in production you want Elasticsearch to be able to consume the hosts resources.

Here is a nice explanation on how to deploy Kibana with Elasticsearch for prod / HA.