# I have a ton of 9200 sessions running **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 18, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862 "2016-03-18T19:39:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rvaedex23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rvaedex23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rvaedex23)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862/1 "2016-03-18T19:39:54Z")
I have lots of these sessions running when I do a netstat -an | grep 9200 tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58500 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58525 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58489 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58522 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58606 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58605 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58620 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58556 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58583 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58524 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58558 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58533 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58501 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58590 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58518 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT tcp 0 0 172.22.17.62:58566 172.22.17.62:9200 TIME\_WAIT ---
**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:** [March 18, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862/2 "2016-03-18T22:17:30Z")
Interesting. Are you just telling us about this or do you want something more? ---
**Author:** ![rvaedex23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rvaedex23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rvaedex23)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862/3 "2016-03-21T12:20:07Z")
Is this normal? Is there a way I can eliminate them? ---
**Author:** ![rvaedex23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rvaedex23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rvaedex23)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862/4 "2016-03-21T18:50:56Z")
I have 5 times as many sessions as I listed above. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862/5 "2016-03-21T19:06:26Z")
> [@rvaedex23](#): > > 172.22.17.62 What is this host? ---
**Author:** ![rvaedex23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rvaedex23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rvaedex23)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862/6 "2016-03-21T20:12:37Z")
host IP of the ELK server ---
**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:** [March 21, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862/7 "2016-03-21T20:13:31Z")
So you have LS talking to ES and KB talking to ES, all on the same host? If so then that is what those connections would be. ---
**Author:** ![rvaedex23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rvaedex23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rvaedex23)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862/8 "2016-03-21T22:01:49Z")
thanks ---
**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, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-a-ton-of-9200-sessions-running/44862/9 "2017-07-05T23:06:26Z")