# Kibana pointing to ES cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pointing-to-es-cluster/77516>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 6, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pointing-to-es-cluster/77516 "2017-03-06T14:30:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![elk12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@elk12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk12)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pointing-to-es-cluster/77516/1 "2017-03-06T14:30:14Z")

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Hello Folks ,

Currently our Kibana is pointing to a single ES node( we have 3 nodes). if that single node goes down or put in maintenance kibana will not be able to do anything. So I came across this .

1. Install ES on same node as kibana and point kibana to it , that ES will act as LB for other nodes.

We are using elasticsearch-5.1.2 , and I am not able to find the below settings in elasticsearch.yml

# 3. You want this node to be neither master nor data node nor ingest node, but

# to act as a "search load balancer" (fetching data from nodes,

# aggregating results, etc.)

# 

node.master: false  
node.data: false  
node.ingest: false

1. what would be settings on elasticsearch.yml on the other 3 nodes ?  
a . should we count the node running on kibana as well ?  
b. should we include the node running on kibana here too discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ?

2. Should we make any changes to curator ?

Any help would be appreciated .

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pointing-to-es-cluster/77516/2 "2017-03-07T20:38:07Z")

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Hi,

It looks like you found the right docs. Basically, you want to establish an ES **coordinating-only** [1] node on the same box as Kibana. That node will be able to join the cluster, but won't have any data management responsibilities. Have Kibana connect to the client node as its `elasticsearch.url`.

[1] [Node | Elasticsearch Guide [5.1] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/modules-node.html#coordinating-only-node)

By adding the 3 lines to `config/elasticsearch.yml` on this node, it will configure it as a client-only node:

```auto
node.master: false 
node.data: false 
node.ingest: false 

```

These options aren't part of the commented-out boilerplate of the elasticsearch config file, you just have to add them.

> [@elk12](#):
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> what would be settings on elasticsearch.yml on the other 3 nodes

Take a look at the `minimum_master_nodes` setting. You effectively still have a 3 node cluster since the coordinating-only node isn't handling any shards. All the nodes should be set with

```auto
discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: 2

```

> [@elk12](#):
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> should we count the node running on kibana as well ?

Not sure I understand the question, but the coordinating node will still show up in the `_cat/nodes` API and it will show in the Monitoring UI.

> [@elk12](#):
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> should we include the node running on kibana here too discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ?

Yes, you should add the coordinating-only node to this array, because the node needs to be able to join the cluster.

> [@elk12](#):
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> Should we make any changes to curator ?

There shouldn't be a need to, since the coordinating-only node doesn't manage any shards.

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**Author:** ![elk12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@elk12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk12)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pointing-to-es-cluster/77516/3 "2017-03-08T14:02:23Z")

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Thanks again for answering all my questions, Ye we have set it up and it is working as expected.!!

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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:** [April 5, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-pointing-to-es-cluster/77516/4 "2017-04-05T14:02:24Z")

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