# Headless or GUI

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/headless-or-gui/313407>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 1, 2022, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/headless-or-gui/313407 "2022-09-01T04:00:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Technolust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Technolust](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Technolust)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/headless-or-gui/313407/1 "2022-09-01T04:00:08Z")

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Setting up an Elastic Cluster using Rocky Linux 9. I have three servers planned to start. 1 Elasticsearch, 1 Kibana, 1 Logstash. The question I can’t find an answer to is do I need to install Rocky Server with GUI on any of these or can I install them all without a GUI (headless)?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/headless-or-gui/313407/2 "2022-09-01T04:41:08Z")

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Headless is better.

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**Author:** ![Technolust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Technolust](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Technolust)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/headless-or-gui/313407/3 "2022-09-01T12:31:29Z")

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Thank you! I couldn't find this anywhere on the install docs.

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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:** [September 29, 2022, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/headless-or-gui/313407/4 "2022-09-29T12:32:20Z")

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