# Load balancing with Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-with-kibana/223753>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 16, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-with-kibana/223753 "2020-03-16T12:27:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![drautenbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@drautenbach](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drautenbach)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-with-kibana/223753/1 "2020-03-16T12:27:33Z")

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Hi,

We have the following configuration:  
2x Elastic Master+Data Nodes (Live data centre)  
1x Elastic Voting node (DR data centre)  
2x Kibana Nodes (live data centre)  
2x Logstash Nodes

If I turn off any of the master+data nodes, the remaining cluster function and recovers to a healthy state when I turn it back on, however if I turn off the voting node, Kibana no longer works (times out) until I re-start the elasticsearch voting node. It does seem that the elasticsearch cluster seem to be functioning as normal (ingesting data from logstash), but the Kibana UI is not available.

Is this expected behaviour, let me know if I need to post any configs?

Thanks  
David

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-with-kibana/223753/2 "2020-03-16T14:00:08Z")

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It might help to share logfiles and configurations of your elasticsearch cluster (and kibana) plus the error message that kibana returns. Also, what nodes are configured in kibana to connect to? Maybe only the voting only node, which then is missing or more?

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**Author:** ![drautenbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@drautenbach](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drautenbach)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-with-kibana/223753/3 "2020-03-16T16:57:00Z")

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Many thanks Alexander, the issue was that the voting-only node was listed under elasticsearch.hosts in the Kibana configuration. I took it out and now it works.

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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 13, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-with-kibana/223753/4 "2020-04-13T16:57:02Z")

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