# Kibana does not recognize elasticsearch when the node joins a cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-recognize-elasticsearch-when-the-node-joins-a-cluster/50023
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 13, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-recognize-elasticsearch-when-the-node-joins-a-cluster/50023 "2016-05-13T18:03:50Z")
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### Author:  [@sharon.c](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sharon.c)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-recognize-elasticsearch-when-the-node-joins-a-cluster/50023/1 "2016-05-13T18:03:50Z")
The elasticsearch version I am using is 2.3.
I have a 2 nodes elasticsearch cluster (with no kibana installed), and an individual elasticsearch data node( with kibana installed). The data node with kibana works perfectly by itself with Kibana showing the local data, but I want the data node with Kibana to join the cluster so that I can visualize data. When I change the settings of Datanode with kibana, Kibana cannot find elasticsearch anymore.
On the datanode\_with\_kibana node:
When the datanode\_with\_kibana elasticsearch.yml setting is all commented, and it working individually, and kibana is working perfectly.
But when I set in datanode\_with\_kibana elasticsearch.yml to join the cluster as follows:
>
cluster.name: elkstats
network.host: 10.100.16.14
Kibana cannot connect to Elasticsearch
I checked the cluster status using
>
curl -XGET '[http://Melasticsearch:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty=true](http://Melasticsearch:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true)'
It shows datanode\_with\_kibana is recognized as a cluster member as follows:
>
{
"cluster\_name" : "elkstats",
"status" : "green",
"timed\_out" : false,
"number\_of\_nodes" : 3,
"number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 3,
"active\_primary\_shards" : 17,
"active\_shards" : 31,
"relocating\_shards" : 0,
"initializing\_shards" : 0,
"unassigned\_shards" : 0,
"delayed\_unassigned\_shards" : 0,
"number\_of\_pending\_tasks" : 0,
"number\_of\_in\_flight\_fetch" : 0,
"task\_max\_waiting\_in\_queue\_millis" : 0,
"active\_shards\_percent\_as\_number" : 100.0
}
The kibana.yml file setting:
>
server.port: 5601
server.host: "datanode\_with\_kibana"
elasticsearch.url: "[http://10.100.16.14:9200](http://10.100.16.14:9200)"
Extra information:
The settings of 2 node Elasticsearch cluster is like this:
One Master Node: elasticsearch.yml settings is as follows
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cluster.name: elkstats
node.name: Melasticsearch
node.master: true
node.data: true
discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["Melasticsearch","datanode1","datanode\_with\_kibana"]
path.data: /data
network.bind\_host: 10.100.16.13
network.publish\_host: 10.100.16.13
http.cors.enabled: true
http.cors.allow-origin: "\*"
One Data Node: elasticsearch.yml settings is as follows
>
cluster.name: elkstats
node.name: datanode1
node.master: false
node.data: true
path.data: /data
network.bind\_host: 10.100.16.11
network.publish\_host: 10.100.16.11
http.cors.enabled: true
http.cors.allow-origin: "\*"
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-recognize-elasticsearch-when-the-node-joins-a-cluster/50023/2 "2017-07-05T22:51:33Z")