# Load balancing the query nodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 14, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-the-query-nodes/44373 "2016-03-14T22:16:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stecino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stecino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stecino)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-the-query-nodes/44373/1 "2016-03-14T22:16:47Z")
Hello, I have two query nodes and I want to put them behind F5 load balancer. Theoretically it should work, but I wanted to make sure nothing local to each server happens that make two nodes out of sync from each other. I am just going to use JSON over HTTP, and view Kibana and Kopf ---
**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:** [March 15, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-the-query-nodes/44373/2 "2016-03-15T02:29:54Z")
> [@stecino](#): > > I wanted to make sure nothing local to each server happens that make two nodes out of sync from each other. Not sure what you think can happen here, but they really have no relationship other than belonging to the same cluster. ---
**Author:** ![stecino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stecino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stecino)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-the-query-nodes/44373/3 "2016-03-15T18:26:04Z")
I have setup F5 load balancing for query nodes, and so far kopf, kibana and json over http works just fine. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-the-query-nodes/44373/4 "2017-07-05T23:08:10Z")