# Kibana and marvel agent

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [August 8, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423 "2018-08-08T04:15:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![nareshm\_399](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nareshm_399/32/55066_2.png) [@nareshm\_399](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nareshm_399)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423/1 "2018-08-08T04:15:15Z")

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I have 17 node ES cluster, I have marvel-agent installed on all nodes. Should I install kibana on 17 nodes or any one of the node?

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**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:** [August 8, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423/3 "2018-08-08T05:08:57Z")

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Are you still on version 2.X of Elasticsearch?

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**Author:** ![nareshm\_399](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nareshm_399/32/55066_2.png) [@nareshm\_399](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nareshm_399)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423/4 "2018-08-08T05:09:48Z")

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Yes we are on 2.3.2 version.

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**Author:** ![nareshm\_399](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nareshm_399/32/55066_2.png) [@nareshm\_399](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nareshm_399)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423/5 "2018-08-08T05:21:00Z")

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Any idea about this?

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**Author:** ![pickypg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pickypg/32/62409_2.png) [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423/6 "2018-08-08T14:39:11Z")

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You should look into upgrading to 5.x / 6.x to get a lot of performance updates and information updates to Marvel in the renamed Monitoring.

You only need a single instance of Kibana to use monitoring, and while you technically _can_ install that on any node, I would recommend installing it onto its own server like any other server process.

You will then need to install the `marvel` plugin in Kibana 4.x. If you upgrade to 5.x, you will only need `x-pack` in both ES and Kibana. If you can make it all the way to 6.3+, then you do not need to install anything other than ES and Kibana using the default install.

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**Author:** ![nareshm\_399](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nareshm_399/32/55066_2.png) [@nareshm\_399](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nareshm_399)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423/7 "2018-08-08T15:32:58Z")

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We are using ES 2.x version. If I installed kibana on any one of the node how can I access the kibana with same ES url with 5601 port?

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**Author:** ![pickypg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pickypg/32/62409_2.png) [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423/8 "2018-08-08T15:46:23Z")

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If it's on the same node, then you just need to set the `server.host` setting in `kibana.yml`. For ES 2.3, you should be running Kibana 4.5.x:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/4.5/kibana-server-properties.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/4.5/kibana-server-properties.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:** [September 5, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-marvel-agent/143423/9 "2018-09-05T15:46:25Z")

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Closed on September 5, 2018, 3:46pm UTC

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