# Random Logout of Multiple Load Balanced Kibana on Multiple Elasticsearch Clusters **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [November 14, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/random-logout-of-multiple-load-balanced-kibana-on-multiple-elasticsearch-clusters/207942 "2019-11-14T17:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AlessandroKP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alessandrokp/32/45312_2.png) [@AlessandroKP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AlessandroKP)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/random-logout-of-multiple-load-balanced-kibana-on-multiple-elasticsearch-clusters/207942/1 "2019-11-14T17:38:46Z")
Hi all, **SETUP** : **Analytics Cluster** 1 Kibana Load Balancer (Sticky Session configured) 2 Analytics Kibana instances connecting to Coordinating Nodes 2 Coordinating Nodes 3 Data Nodes **Monitoring Cluster** 1 Kibana Load Balancer (Sticky Session configured) 2 Analytics Kibana instances connecting to Monitoring Nodes 2 Monitoring Nodes **COMPONENTS DISTRIBUTION** **HOST #1** Kibana Analytics #1 Kibana Monitoring #1 Coordinating Node #1 Monitoring Node #1 **HOST #2** Kibana Analytics #2 Kibana Monitoring #2 Coordinating Node #2 Monitoring Node #2 - all 4 Kibana instances have the load balanced elasticsearch hosts configuration (e.g. elasticsearch.hosts: [host:9200,host2:9201]) to connect to proper clusters like explained in [High Availability Across Multiple Elasticsearch Nodes paragraph](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.4/production.html) - both ES clusters have the same users definition (elastic/elastic, kibana/kibana and so on..) **ISSUE:** when I login to Kibana Analytics and I do the same (with the same or different user, in the same or different moment) to Kibana Monitoring they both logout. **TESTED USE CASES** - All 4 Kibana instances running: KO - 1 single Kibana instance of each type running on the same host (eg. HOST #1): KO - 1 single Kibana instance of each type running on different hosts: KO - I defined a different kibana\_system user to be used by a specific kibana instance: KO Do you have any suggestions? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![ea1987](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ea1987/32/51356_2.png) [@ea1987](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ea1987)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/random-logout-of-multiple-load-balanced-kibana-on-multiple-elasticsearch-clusters/207942/2 "2019-11-15T14:48:34Z")
Hi guys, in addition (I'm working with Alessandro): we bypassed LB and used Kibana straight on hosts, but the issue persists. I checked on both KB instances (monitoring and analytics) log files (verbose: true) but didn't find nothing special except for a lot of 304 http code and a correct login as you can see: ``` {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-11-15T14:07:53Z","tags":["debug","plugins","security","basic"],"pid":25512,"message":"Trying to perform a login."} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-11-15T14:07:53Z","tags":["debug","plugins","security","basic"],"pid":25512,"message":"Login has been successfully performed."} ``` I found also the following message (frequently) ``` {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-11-15T14:20:27Z","tags":["debug","plugins","security","basic"],"pid":25512,"message":"Trying to authenticate via header."} {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-11-15T14:20:27Z","tags":["debug","plugins","security","basic"],"pid":25512,"message":"Authorization header is not presented."} ``` Thanks ---
**Author:** ![ea1987](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ea1987/32/51356_2.png) [@ea1987](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ea1987)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/random-logout-of-multiple-load-balanced-kibana-on-multiple-elasticsearch-clusters/207942/3 "2019-11-15T16:13:06Z")
Solved. We set the following properties in kibana.yml files: **xpack.security.cookieName** **xpack.security.encryptionKey** NB: these properties should be reported inside **Using Kibana in a production environment** in a proper paragraph dedicated to Kibana for Monitoring and Kibana for Analytics clusters, in my opinion 🙂 Thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/random-logout-of-multiple-load-balanced-kibana-on-multiple-elasticsearch-clusters/207942/4 "2019-12-13T16:13:11Z")
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