# Ingest nodes don't load balance the pipeline load
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-nodes-dont-load-balance-the-pipeline-load/254876
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-nodes-dont-load-balance-the-pipeline-load/254876 "2020-11-10T09:01:46Z")
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### Author:  [@keshara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keshara)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-nodes-dont-load-balance-the-pipeline-load/254876/1 "2020-11-10T09:01:46Z")
Hi,
I have a ECK cluster where maintaining dedicated **two** ingest nodes, specially to isolate and get my pipelines working across them. While it is running I noticed only one node being utilized 100% cpu where the other one less than 1%. When I dig the issue more from following command, it clearly shows only the one node does the pipeline processing.
```
GET _nodes/stats/ingest?filter_path=nodes.*.ingest
```
From these information, what i can think of there are no load balancing happen even the cluster has got two INGEST nodes.
My question is that it doesn't make scenes only one **\_ingest** node do the 99% of work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2020, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-nodes-dont-load-balance-the-pipeline-load/254876/2 "2020-12-08T09:01:47Z")
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