Kibana setting of elasricsearch cluster

[peterch]

Hi All,

I'm new for elastic. If I built a elasricsearch cluster which have one master node and one data node, the kibana should point to which node? is it master node?

Thanks

Best Regards,

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Welcome

If you are building a new cluster, 2 nodes is not ideal, 3 is best. Check out https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/2.x/important-configuration-changes.html#_minimum_master_nodes for more on that.

However you would probably want to point Kibana to the data node.

[Christian_Dahlqvist]

Just because you can have nodes with different roles does not mean you should. For clusters up to 3 nodes it rarely makes sense using dedicated node types. Instead let all nodes have the default configuration where they take on all roles.