# ELK clustering steps

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-clustering-steps/81585>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 7, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-clustering-steps/81585 "2017-04-07T09:00:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![er.navalgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@er.navalgupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/er.navalgupta)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-clustering-steps/81585/1 "2017-04-07T09:00:26Z")

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Please share the procees of doing ELK cluster setup. Basically we wants to have 3 instances of elastic search, 1 instance of logstash and 1 instance of kibana. Any idea on how can we achieve clustering with load balancing and failover handling mechanisms.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-clustering-steps/81585/2 "2017-04-07T10:16:58Z")

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It looks like you have posted in the wrong category. Have you gone through the available documentation?

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-clustering-steps/81585/3 "2017-07-05T22:01:22Z")

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