# Multiple Kibana instances - again

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-kibana-instances-again/155011>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 1, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-kibana-instances-again/155011 "2018-11-01T12:36:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![wheelq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wheelq/32/35893_2.png) [@wheelq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wheelq)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-kibana-instances-again/155011/1 "2018-11-01T12:36:33Z")

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Are there any cons for having multiple Kibana instances? I read that it might cause some issues due to sharing single .kibana config stored inside the ES cluster/node.

Also, earlier it made sense as Kibana could talk to ES client, but now client mode is being deprecated.

Any thoughts? pros, cons?

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-kibana-instances-again/155011/2 "2018-11-02T03:27:05Z")

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Can you please describe what would be your use case ? Is this production environment ? The "best" way depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

If this is for a production deployment where you need to scale out Kibana based on high Kibana traffic, then it would make sense to run Kibana on two separate hosts behind a load balancer, instead of collocated the same host where the two processes would be competing for the same resources.

As far as the client node is concerned, instead of a client node, you can use a load balancer between Kibana and Elasticsearch. With respect to pros and cons of a client node - there is nothing wrong with using a client node together with Kibana, but if you want to avoid it being a single point of failure, a load balancer might be an alternative. You can also set up two Kibana instances and load-balance in front of these. It all depends on your use case.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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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:** [November 30, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-kibana-instances-again/155011/3 "2018-11-30T03:27:11Z")

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