# How many master node will be active

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-master-node-will-be-active/174998>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 2, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-master-node-will-be-active/174998 "2019-04-02T13:13:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![shivawww](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@shivawww](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shivawww)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-master-node-will-be-active/174998/1 "2019-04-02T13:13:03Z")

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Suppose I have a 3 master node in a cluster how many master node will be active.  
Let us say I have below 3 master node running in 9200 port on 3 different machine  
master-node01  
master-node01  
master-noode3  
then will each of the master will be active in a cluster ? and can each of the master node can be accessed to send request?  
[http://master-node01.domain:9200](http://master-node01.domain:9200)  
[http://master-node02.domain:9200](http://master-node02.domain:9200)  
[http://master-node03.domain:9200](http://master-node03.domain:9200)

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-master-node-will-be-active/174998/2 "2019-04-02T15:16:38Z")

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It is not clear what you mean by "active". All nodes in a cluster are doing _something_ most of the time.

> [@shivawww](#):
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> can each of the master node can be accessed to send request?

You can send any request to any node in a cluster. In fact it's normally preferable to _avoid_ sending requests to the master node(s) so they can dedicate their resources to managing the cluster.

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**Author:** ![shivawww](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@shivawww](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shivawww)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-master-node-will-be-active/174998/3 "2019-04-03T01:05:27Z")

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'Active' means does each of the master nodes in a cluster takes request was my question. Thanks. you provided the answer.

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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:** [May 1, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-master-node-will-be-active/174998/4 "2019-05-01T01:05:27Z")

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