# K8s\_node\_name not found?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/k8s-node-name-not-found/247463>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/k8s-node-name-not-found/247463 "2020-09-03T23:42:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Luke\_Quinane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luke_quinane/32/75073_2.png) [@Luke\_Quinane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luke_Quinane)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/k8s-node-name-not-found/247463/1 "2020-09-03T23:42:03Z")

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Hi guys,

I'm trying to follow the instructions here to setup a multi-az cluster: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/master/k8s-advanced-node-scheduling.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/master/k8s-advanced-node-scheduling.html) and I've setup `cluster.routing.allocation.awareness.attributes: k8s_node_name,zone` in the config.

However Kibana fails to start up, and digging into the cluster allocation via `curl -k -u elastic:T708a8w8PdGypG047UgW28Vo https://tenant-es-es-http.test-tenant-hxcwf:9200/_cluster/allocation/explain?pretty` it seems like `k8s_node_name` is not set for the nodes:

```auto
    {
      "index" : ".kibana_1",
      "shard" : 0,
      "primary" : true,
      "current_state" : "unassigned",
      "unassigned_info" : {
        "reason" : "INDEX_CREATED",
        "at" : "2020-09-03T06:28:44.747Z",
        "last_allocation_status" : "no"
      },
      "can_allocate" : "no",
      "allocate_explanation" : "cannot allocate because allocation is not permitted to any of the nodes",
      "node_allocation_decisions" : [
        {
          "node_id" : "i-zJUAumRFGI8sWZcugI3g",
          "node_name" : "tenant-es-es-ap-southeast-1c-0",
          "transport_address" : "10.0.3.178:9300",
          "node_attributes" : {
            "ml.machine_memory" : "2147483648",
            "ml.max_open_jobs" : "20",
            "xpack.installed" : "true",
            "ml.enabled" : "true",
            "zone" : "ap-southeast-1c"
          },
          "node_decision" : "no",
          "weight_ranking" : 1,
          "deciders" : [
            {
              "decider" : "awareness",
              "decision" : "NO",
              "explanation" : "node does not contain the awareness attribute [k8s_node_name]; required attributes cluster setting [cluster.routing.allocation.awareness.attributes=k8s_node_name,zone]"
            }
          ]
        },
    ... two other nodes here

```

Is there a step I've missed? I haven't done anything explicit to set that `k8s_node_name` attribute as the docs have: "Note that by default ECK creates a `k8s_node_name` attribute with the name of the Kubernetes node running the Pod, and configures Elasticsearch to use this attribute".

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![pebrc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pebrc/32/101790_2.png) [@pebrc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pebrc)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/k8s-node-name-not-found/247463/2 "2020-09-07T07:55:00Z")

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This feature is not released yet. You were looking at the documentation for the `master` branch which is the version currently under development.

You can find the documentation for the current version by replacing `master` with `current` or the specific version of ECK you are running e.g.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/1.2/k8s-advanced-node-scheduling.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/1.2/k8s-advanced-node-scheduling.html)

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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:** [November 4, 2022, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/k8s-node-name-not-found/247463/3 "2022-11-04T08:12:28Z")

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