# Having issues with more than 1 instance
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-with-more-than-1-instance/207154
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)
**Created:** [November 8, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-with-more-than-1-instance/207154 "2019-11-08T17:21:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@booboothefool](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/booboothefool)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-with-more-than-1-instance/207154/1 "2019-11-08T17:21:45Z")
Hi there so I've gotten the single instance configuration to work. And Kibana is able to connect to it.
```auto
apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1beta1
kind: Elasticsearch
metadata:
name: elastic
spec:
version: 7.4.2
nodeSets:
- name: default
count: 1
config:
node.master: true
node.data: true
node.ingest: true
node.store.allow_mmap: false
http:
tls:
selfSignedCertificate:
disabled: true
```
However as soon as I try to add more, in order to scale out reads e.g.:
```auto
apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1beta1
kind: Elasticsearch
metadata:
name: elastic
spec:
version: 7.4.2
nodeSets:
- name: default
count: 3
config:
node.master: true
node.data: true
node.ingest: true
node.store.allow_mmap: false
http:
tls:
selfSignedCertificate:
disabled: true
```
```auto
apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1beta1
kind: Elasticsearch
metadata:
name: elastic
spec:
version: 7.4.2
nodeSets:
- name: default
count: 1
config:
node.master: true
node.data: true
node.ingest: true
node.store.allow_mmap: false
- name: data
count: 2
config:
node.master: false
node.data: true
node.ingest: false
node.store.allow_mmap: false
http:
tls:
selfSignedCertificate:
disabled: true
```
All of my Elasticsearch pods start crashing/erroring out, and Kibana is not able to connect. If I start with 1 Elasticsearch + 1 Kibana it is able to connect, then when I scale up to 3 Elasticsearch, the pods stay running but eventually Kibana shows everything in a red state and it no longer works. I am running on an 8 vCPU x 32GB mem + 4 vCPU x 16GB mem + 4 vCPU x 16GB mem, so I believe I have enough resources.
Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@Anya\_Sabo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anya_Sabo)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-with-more-than-1-instance/207154/2 "2019-11-08T21:16:00Z")
Can you share the logs of the ES pods when they crash? That should help diagnose what is happening. I used your original spec and then increased the count to 3 and it worked as expected. I then tried applying the extra nodeset over it as in your third example and it also worked.
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### Author:  [@booboothefool](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/booboothefool)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-with-more-than-1-instance/207154/4 "2019-11-13T21:30:05Z")
I was able to get another ES node up and it didn't crash, but I will provide logs if it does again.
However in my Kibana monitoring it still shows a yellow state, and only shows the original 1 node. It doesn't seem to be picking up the new node `elastic-es-default-1`.
```auto
elastic-es-default-0 Running
elastic-es-default-1 Running
```
I also noticed when I upgrade the count, it won't seem to go past 2. For example when I change to `count: 3` and re-apply the yaml, it stays at 2 pods and nothing happens, no errors.
And in the Kibana I am intermittently getting "Internal Server Error". It seems to happen quite frequently but will eventually fix itself if you keep refreshing.
```auto
SearchError: Internal Server Error
at https://localhost:5601/bundles/commons.bundle.js:5:1843343
at processQueue (https://localhost:5601/built_assets/dlls/vendors.bundle.dll.js:417:203810)
at https://localhost:5601/built_assets/dlls/vendors.bundle.dll.js:417:204773
at Scope.$digest (https://localhost:5601/built_assets/dlls/vendors.bundle.dll.js:417:214757)
at Scope.$apply (https://localhost:5601/built_assets/dlls/vendors.bundle.dll.js:417:217761)
at done (https://localhost:5601/built_assets/dlls/vendors.bundle.dll.js:417:136089)
at completeRequest (https://localhost:5601/built_assets/dlls/vendors.bundle.dll.js:417:139882)
at XMLHttpRequest.requestLoaded (https://localhost:5601/built_assets/dlls/vendors.bundle.dll.js:417:138624)
```
I am running on IBM Cloud Kubernetes. I don't see anything useful in any logs, but let me know if there's any specific info I can provide to help troubleshoot the issue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-with-more-than-1-instance/207154/5 "2022-11-04T07:32:41Z")