# Elastic data nodes not sharing load equally **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 4, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-data-nodes-not-sharing-load-equally/230979 "2020-05-04T13:34:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ilayda\_Akinalan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ilayda_akinalan/32/54058_2.png) [@Ilayda\_Akinalan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ilayda_Akinalan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-data-nodes-not-sharing-load-equally/230979/1 "2020-05-04T13:34:03Z")
hi, I have 3 master and 4 data nodes as part of my elk setup. We have a load balancer infront of the data nodes as well and it seems that the load is still not being divided evenly. One of the data nodes would have 80% of the load and the other 3 would share the rest. I checked the yaml files and they are all the same. Can anyone provide any recommendations? ---
**Author:** ![loren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/loren/32/44942_2.png) [@loren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/loren)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-data-nodes-not-sharing-load-equally/230979/2 "2020-05-04T21:37:29Z")
Look at the shard allocation and check Kibana to see if any shards on that node have a high ingest/search rate. If you had daily indices, no replicas, and a decent ingest rate, then you would end up with one node being busy on any given day. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-data-nodes-not-sharing-load-equally/230979/3 "2020-06-01T21:37:40Z")
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