# High Availability for Kibana Console application
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 23, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751 "2021-05-23T07:10:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ggio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ggio)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751/1 "2021-05-23T07:10:49Z")
Hi,
Kibana currently can be configured to connect to multiple Elasticsearch nodes in the same cluster.
I discovered that Console application is limited to connecting only on the first host defined in elasticsearch.hosts in kibana.yml configuration file.
This can be an issue because if the first node is not available(i.e maintenance or failure), Console application will not work and it returns the error _Client request error: connect EHOSTUNREACH_.
How can this issue be prevented?
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### Author:  [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751/2 "2021-05-24T04:11:55Z")
What do you mean console?
This --\> [Console | Kibana Guide [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/console-kibana.html)
Where did you see this limitation?
Never encountered such an issue.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ggio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ggio)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751/3 "2021-05-24T11:41:38Z")
Hi @AClerk ,
Yes, I mean the console accessible when you click on **Dev Tools**.
If my understanding is correct, Console application is able to connect only to the first ES host defined on kibana.yml. If for some reason the first host is not available, the request is not forwarded to other ES hosts but it will generate an error \* _Client request error: connect EHOSTUNREACH_\*
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### Author:  [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751/4 "2021-05-24T23:51:09Z")
Can you provide a link to where this limitation stated? Discuss? Document? Anything?
Otherwise, Looks like you have other issues.
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### Author:  [@ggio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ggio)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751/5 "2021-05-25T12:04:48Z")
Hi,
This limit is reported on official Kibana documentation: [Use Kibana in a production environment | Kibana Guide [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#high-availability)
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### Author:  [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751/6 "2021-05-25T23:33:23Z")
Thanks for the reference.
It is a limitation, there is nothing to do about it.
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### Author:  [@ggio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ggio)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751/7 "2021-05-26T20:27:38Z")
Ok, I will try to raise this feature request on GitHub
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-kibana-console-application/273751/8 "2021-06-23T20:28:33Z")
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