# Query about cluster metadata file - global.sts
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-about-cluster-metadata-file-global-sts/239128
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 29, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-about-cluster-metadata-file-global-sts/239128 "2020-06-29T14:40:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@chaitra\_hegde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chaitra_hegde)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-about-cluster-metadata-file-global-sts/239128/1 "2020-06-29T14:40:16Z")
Hi,
I have an Elasticsearch cluster with version 6.6.1. I have 14 data nodes, 3 master nodes, 3 client nodes.
When I check in the above elasticsearch nodes under data/nodes/0/\_state folder I can see different version of global-x.sts.
Is it required to have the same version of global-x.sts across all the nodes in cluster?
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-about-cluster-metadata-file-global-sts/239128/2 "2020-06-29T14:59:04Z")
> [@chaitra\_hegde](#):
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> Is it required to have the same version of global-x.sts across all the nodes in cluster?
No, that's definitely not required or even expected.
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### Author:  [@chaitra\_hegde](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chaitra_hegde)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-about-cluster-metadata-file-global-sts/239128/3 "2020-06-30T05:12:24Z")
In what all cases the global-x.sts version gets updated incrementally in the ES nodes?
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-about-cluster-metadata-file-global-sts/239128/4 "2020-06-30T07:36:04Z")
It's incremented every time the file is written.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-about-cluster-metadata-file-global-sts/239128/5 "2020-07-28T07:39:19Z")
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