# Kibana setting of elasricsearch cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-of-elasricsearch-cluster/142137>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 30, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-of-elasricsearch-cluster/142137 "2018-07-30T09:25:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![peterch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@peterch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/peterch)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-of-elasricsearch-cluster/142137/1 "2018-07-30T09:25:51Z")

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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,

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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:** [July 30, 2018, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-of-elasricsearch-cluster/142137/2 "2018-07-30T09:33:15Z")

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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](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.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-of-elasricsearch-cluster/142137/3 "2018-07-30T09:37:40Z")

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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.

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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:** [August 27, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-setting-of-elasricsearch-cluster/142137/4 "2018-08-27T09:37:40Z")

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