# Ingest node question

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-node-question/229670>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 24, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-node-question/229670 "2020-04-24T14:26:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![rugenl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rugenl/32/12887_2.png) [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-node-question/229670/1 "2020-04-24T14:26:32Z")

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All of our nodes are ingest nodes because that's the default 🙂 However, only our hot nodes are targeted by most clients for indexing and only a subset of those would use ingest pipelines.

The stats appear to show that the node targeted by a client runs the ingest pipelines, does that sound correct?

If we wanted to add some "dedicated" ingest nodes and only target those for a specific high ingest rate pipeline app, would those nodes run the pipeline code?

I assume the heavy indexing cycles would still occur on the hot nodes?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-node-question/229670/2 "2020-04-25T05:31:25Z")

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> [@rugenl](#):
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> The stats appear to show that the node targeted by a client runs the ingest pipelines, does that sound correct?

Yes.

> [@rugenl](#):
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> If we wanted to add some "dedicated" ingest nodes and only target those for a specific high ingest rate pipeline app, would those nodes run the pipeline code?

Yes.

> [@rugenl](#):
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> I assume the heavy indexing cycles would still occur on the hot nodes?

Yes.

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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 23, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-node-question/229670/3 "2020-05-23T05:31:27Z")

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