# Configuration of kibana with cross cluster search **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 26, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-with-cross-cluster-search/117186 "2018-01-26T11:05:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![bbailey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@bbailey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bbailey)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-with-cross-cluster-search/117186/8 "2018-02-01T10:59:43Z")
It seems that if I run Kibana on a coordinating node in one cluster that I am then unable to search across both the local indices in that cluster AND remote nodes > [@How to run cross cluster search across local and remote indices](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-cross-cluster-search-across-local-and-remote-indices/117997): > > I am trying to setup my environment so that I can switch from using tribe nodes to use cross cluster search and running in to a few problems After some useful feedback in this forum I have configured my system with kibana pointing to a coordinating node in cluster\_1 with cross cluster search configured so I can also search indices in cluster\_2 and cluster\_3. I can configure index patterns in Kibana to search for logs as follows:- logstash-\* returns all local logs in clu… This would suggest that the only way to search across multiple clusters would be to run kibana on a completely separate elasticsearch node so that I can use a wildcard in my index pattern to read data from all clusters. ( I have to point out though that I am using version 5.6.2 as there are limitations in my configuration that may prevent me from moving to 6.x yet ) --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-with-cross-cluster-search/117186)._