# Mutliple elasticsearch with a single kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mutliple-elasticsearch-with-a-single-kibana/189064
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 5, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mutliple-elasticsearch-with-a-single-kibana/189064 "2019-07-05T09:51:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@koventhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/koventhan)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mutliple-elasticsearch-with-a-single-kibana/189064/1 "2019-07-05T09:51:46Z")
Hello team,
I have created two elasticsearch and tried connecting them to a single kibana,where both the elasticsearch are in Virtualboxs. when i try to connect to the other elasticsearch it shows up with error
error i am getting
Hello team,
I have created two elasticsearch and tried connecting them to a single kibana,where both the elasticsearch are in Virtualboxs. when i try to connect to the other elasticsearch it shows up with error
{
"error": {
"root\_cause": [
{
"type": "connect\_transport\_exception",
"reason": "[127.0.0.1:9301] connect\_exception"
}
],
"type": "connect\_transport\_exception",
"reason": "[127.0.0.1:9301] connect\_exception",
"caused\_by": {
"type": "annotated\_connect\_exception",
"reason": "Connection refused: /127.0.0.1:9301",
"caused\_by": {
"type": "connect\_exception",
"reason": "Connection refused"
}
}
},
"status": 500
}
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### Author:  [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mutliple-elasticsearch-with-a-single-kibana/189064/2 "2019-07-05T19:33:08Z")
Hi @koventhan,
If you are trying to connect one Kibana instance to multiple Elasticsearch clusters, you'll want to look into [Cross-cluster search](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-cross-cluster-search.html), which allows you to set up one node that can federate queries across multiple clusters.
You'd need to connect Kibana to this node, and then [configure your index patterns](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/management-cross-cluster-search.html) to point to the right cluster(s) for your fields.
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### Author:  [@koventhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/koventhan)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mutliple-elasticsearch-with-a-single-kibana/189064/3 "2019-07-08T02:02:42Z")
Hello @lukeelmers
I am getting the above error once i connect using cross cluster search.Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mutliple-elasticsearch-with-a-single-kibana/189064/4 "2019-08-05T02:02:53Z")
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