# Kibana Setting multiple elasticsearch.hosts over marathon template **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [October 8, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-multiple-elasticsearch-hosts-over-marathon-template/202662 "2019-10-08T12:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Merlin\_Nunez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/merlin_nunez/32/58551_2.png) [@Merlin\_Nunez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Merlin_Nunez)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-multiple-elasticsearch-hosts-over-marathon-template/202662/1 "2019-10-08T12:04:59Z")
Hi All, I´m currently running ELK in a dockerized environment, and I use marathon/mesos to manage it. Up until now I was running a single node cluster but it is obviously not fit for production. So, my goal is to set up a two node cluster, with two elasticsearch nodes and a kibana client capable of using them both. right now im setting in kibana the url of elasticsearch like this: > ``` > "env": { > "ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS": "http://99.9.99.99:9200" > }, > > ``` I need to add a second url for another Elasticsearch node. So far I´ve tried all combinations that I could think of and none of them work, like: > "[http://99.9.99.99:9200](http://99.9.99.99:9200), [http://99.9.99.98:9200](http://99.9.99.98:9200)" > "[[http://99.9.99.99:9200](http://99.9.99.99:9200), [http://99.9.99.98:9200](http://99.9.99.98:9200)]" > ""[[http://99.9.99.99:9200](http://99.9.99.99:9200)", "[http://99.9.99.98:9200](http://99.9.99.98:9200)"]" But I always get the same error: > {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-10-07T19:37:34Z","tags":["fatal","root"],"pid":1,"message":"{ ValidationError: child "elasticsearch" fails because [child "hosts" fails because [single value of "hosts" fails because ["hosts" must be a valid uri with a scheme matching the http|https pattern]]]\n at Object.exports.process (/usr/share/kibana/node\_modules/joi/lib/errors.js:196:19)\n at internals.Object.\_validateWithOptions (/usr/share/kibana/node\_modules/joi/lib/types/any/index.js:675:31)\n at module.exports.internals.Any.root.validate (/usr/share/kibana/node\_modules/joi/lib/index.js:146:23)\n at Config.\_commit (/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/server/config/config.js:139:35)\n at Config.set (/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/server/config/config.js:108:10)\n at Config.extendSchema (/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/server/config/config.js:81:10)\n at extendConfigService (/usr/share/kibana/src/legacy/plugin\_discovery/plugin\_config/extend\_config\_service.js:45:10) name: 'ValidationError' }"} I´m trying to avoid having a custom bind kibana.yml since this complicates deployment, so it would be very usefull to find a way of having this working using an external property. Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![tiagocosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagocosta/32/40045_2.png) [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-multiple-elasticsearch-hosts-over-marathon-template/202662/2 "2019-10-08T14:28:23Z")
@Merlin_Nunez could you please try the following ```auto "env": { "ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS": '["http://99.9.99.99:9200","http://99.9.99.98:9200"]' }, ``` Cheers ---
**Author:** ![Merlin\_Nunez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/merlin_nunez/32/58551_2.png) [@Merlin\_Nunez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Merlin_Nunez)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-multiple-elasticsearch-hosts-over-marathon-template/202662/3 "2019-10-08T15:24:36Z")
> [@tiagocosta](#): > > '["[http://99.9.99.99:9200](http://99.9.99.99:9200)","[http://99.9.99.98:9200](http://99.9.99.98:9200)"]' Oddly enough, that format works when I work with docker compose, but not when I work with marathon, i still get the same error. ---
**Author:** ![tiagocosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagocosta/32/40045_2.png) [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-multiple-elasticsearch-hosts-over-marathon-template/202662/4 "2019-10-08T15:32:01Z")
@Merlin_Nunez I'm not familiar with marathon, but my first thought then is maybe you need to escape the string and write something like: ```auto "[\"http://99.9.99.99:9200\",\"http://99.9.99.98:9200\"]" ``` or ```auto "[\\\"http://99.9.99.99:9200\\\",\\\"http://99.9.99.98:9200\\\"]" ``` The last one I'm suggesting is because in quick search I ran, looks like an user reported in the marathon repo that he was having problems escaping the string and he was only successful that way. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![Merlin\_Nunez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/merlin_nunez/32/58551_2.png) [@Merlin\_Nunez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Merlin_Nunez)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-multiple-elasticsearch-hosts-over-marathon-template/202662/5 "2019-10-08T15:41:57Z")
> "["[http://99.9.99.99:9200](http://99.9.99.99:9200)","[http://99.9.99.98:9200](http://99.9.99.98:9200)"]" That one somehow works!, I could swear I tried that before, must be going crazy for all the trial and error!. Thank you so much @tiagoacosta! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-multiple-elasticsearch-hosts-over-marathon-template/202662/6 "2019-11-05T15:42:00Z")
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