# Dedicated Coordinating Nodes With Cross Cluster Searching

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-coordinating-nodes-with-cross-cluster-searching/200765>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ccs-cross-cluster-search\
**Created:** [September 23, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-coordinating-nodes-with-cross-cluster-searching/200765 "2019-09-23T22:14:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![seth.yes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/seth.yes/32/11788_2.png) [@seth.yes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seth.yes)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-coordinating-nodes-with-cross-cluster-searching/200765/1 "2019-09-23T22:14:04Z")

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I'm using Elastic v7.3 and trying to figure out how to utilize coordinating-only nodes with Cross-cluster searching.

My hope is to have Kibana query two coordinating-only nodes in each cluster. However, I'm seeing in the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.3/modules-node.html#coordinating-only-node) that I need to have `cluster.remote.connect: false`. Will this still allow Kibana to connect to both remote clusters? If so, what is the purpose of `cluster.remote.connect`?

Also, in `kibana.yml`, I have a setting I'm not sure about:

```auto
# The URL of the Elasticsearch instance to use for all your queries.
elasticsearch.hosts: "http://localhost:9400"

```

Which is pointing to a coordinating node on running on the same host as Kibana - is this bottlenecking my setup? When I have cross-cluster search enabled, is `elasticsearch.hosts` just ignored?

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**Author:** ![seth.yes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/seth.yes/32/11788_2.png) [@seth.yes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seth.yes)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-coordinating-nodes-with-cross-cluster-searching/200765/2 "2019-09-25T15:19:10Z")

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My questions were answered in the [kibana forums](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hosts-setting-in-kibana-yml-with-cross-cluster-searching/200903).

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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:** [October 23, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-coordinating-nodes-with-cross-cluster-searching/200765/3 "2019-10-23T15:19:11Z")

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