# Question about setup Elasticsearch with Loadbalancing

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-setup-elasticsearch-with-loadbalancing/128865
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 20, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-setup-elasticsearch-with-loadbalancing/128865 "2018-04-20T11:38:21Z")
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### Author: ![Edouard\_Fazenda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@Edouard\_Fazenda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Edouard_Fazenda)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-setup-elasticsearch-with-loadbalancing/128865/1 "2018-04-20T11:38:22Z")

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Dear Community,

I want to put in place a kind of redundant loadbalancing setup with 2 ElasticSearch nodes + 2 Kibana Nodes with Elasticsearch Coordinated Only node role.

Here a picture of the setup

![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/3/93c79e2d4d16c0865bb2db61a3d7ed1afef2ff2b.PNG)

I will give you my configuration for each nodes :

elastic-01:

```
cluster.name: mycluster
node.name: elastic-01
network.host: 10.10.68.24
http.port: 9200
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["elastic-01", "elastic-02", "kibana-01", "kibana-02"]
discovery.zen.master_election.ignore_non_master_pings: true

elastic-02:

cluster.name: mycluster
node.name: elastic-02
network.host: 10.10.68.25
http.port: 9200
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["elastic-01", "elastic-02", "kibana-01", "kibana-02"]
discovery.zen.master_election.ignore_non_master_pings: true

```

kibana-01:

```
cluster.name: mycluster
node.master: false
node.data: false
node.ingest: false
search.remote.connect: false
network.host: localhost
http.port: 9200
transport.host: 10.10.68.25
transport.tcp.port: 9300

```

kibana-02:

```
cluster.name: mycluster
node.master: false
node.data: false
node.ingest: false
search.remote.connect: false
network.host: localhost
http.port: 9200
transport.host: 10.10.68.26
transport.tcp.port: 9300

```

It seems that when I browse from [http://kibana-01:5601/](http://kibana-01:5601/) i have the following error :

```
plugin:elasticsearch@6.2.3 Service Unavailable

```

The same from the [http://kibana-02:5601](http://kibana-02:5601).

The elasticsearch logs from the Coordinated Only Nodes :

```
[2018-04-20T13:36:02,145][WARN][o.e.d.z.ZenDiscovery] [zxSDt-c] not enough master nodes discovered during pinging (found [[]], but needed [-1]), pinging again

```

It seems that the coordinated only nodes are not seing the other elasticsearch nodes..

Maybe you have an idea on what is wrong with my setup.

Best Regards, Edouard.

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-setup-elasticsearch-with-loadbalancing/128865/2 "2018-04-20T11:51:40Z")

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> [@Edouard\_Fazenda](#):
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> discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["elastic-01", "elastic-02", "kibana-01", "kibana-02"]

ALL nodes need to know how to connect to the other nodes, so you need to add this also on the coordinating nodes.

If you have 2 nodes that are master-eligible, you should also set `minimum_master_nodes` to 2 as per [these guidelines](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/modules-node.html#split-brain).

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### Author: ![Edouard\_Fazenda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@Edouard\_Fazenda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Edouard_Fazenda)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-setup-elasticsearch-with-loadbalancing/128865/3 "2018-04-20T12:26:36Z")

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> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#):
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> ow how to connect to the other nodes, s

Thanks a lot Christian, I had also the following issue (port TCP/9300) not opennded on somes nodes.

Have a nice weekend !

Best Regards,

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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: [May 18, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-setup-elasticsearch-with-loadbalancing/128865/4 "2018-05-18T12:26:42Z")

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