# Kibana 4.1 talking to multiple elastic nodes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-talking-to-multiple-elastic-nodes/34011>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 6, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-talking-to-multiple-elastic-nodes/34011 "2015-11-06T16:09:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![bilsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@bilsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bilsch)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-talking-to-multiple-elastic-nodes/34011/1 "2015-11-06T16:09:22Z")

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Is there another alternative out there for kibana beyond [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#load-balancing](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#load-balancing) ??

Guessing the other option is to put multiple kibana hosts behind a load balancer each pointing to a ndoe in the es cluster?

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-talking-to-multiple-elastic-nodes/34011/2 "2015-11-07T16:35:12Z")

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Yes, the other options are to use a proxy or a load balancer to distribute the requests between multiple Elasticsearch nodes.

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-talking-to-multiple-elastic-nodes/34011/3 "2015-11-07T16:40:36Z")

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Btw, I filed a ticket to improve the Kibana deployment docs, feel free to add to it: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5347](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5347)

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**Author:** ![bilsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@bilsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bilsch)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-talking-to-multiple-elastic-nodes/34011/4 "2015-11-09T16:30:48Z")

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Thanks!

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-talking-to-multiple-elastic-nodes/34011/5 "2017-07-06T14:09:28Z")

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