# Re-use zen discovery API **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 7, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-zen-discovery-api/22571 "2015-03-07T17:03:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pdesoyres](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pdesoyres/32/509_2.png) [@pdesoyres](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pdesoyres)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-zen-discovery-api/22571/1 "2015-03-07T17:03:13Z")
Hello, I would like to know if I can use the zen-dicovery API of elasticsearch for a totally different project (using elasticsearch cluster also) but that also needs to scale horizontaly. I do not want to reinvent the wheel, and since i'm using elasticsearch library, I would like to take benefit of the elasticsearch API for nodes detection and master election. Thanks by advance _Pierre_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/659be669-8a25-47bb-8258-08dd1e1e3e59%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/659be669-8a25-47bb-8258-08dd1e1e3e59%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-zen-discovery-api/22571/2 "2015-03-12T05:58:52Z")
The discovery API is not modularized enough to use it outside of the Elasticsearch context. I would simply use something like Zookeeper, which is built exactly for situations like yours. Cheers, Ivan On Mar 7, 2015 7:03 PM, "Pierre de Soyres" [pdesoyres@gmail.com](mailto:pdesoyres@gmail.com) wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if I can use the zen-dicovery API of elasticsearch > for a totally different project (using elasticsearch cluster also) but that > also needs to scale horizontaly. I do not want to reinvent the wheel, and > since i'm using elasticsearch library, I would like to take benefit of the > elasticsearch API for nodes detection and master election. > > Thanks by advance > > _Pierre_ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/659be669-8a25-47bb-8258-08dd1e1e3e59%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/659be669-8a25-47bb-8258-08dd1e1e3e59%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/659be669-8a25-47bb-8258-08dd1e1e3e59%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/659be669-8a25-47bb-8258-08dd1e1e3e59%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQDiOX9vSPYzcVBCQ5Yb1EKEAKCLf38BXN%2Bq4yboix4Efw%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQDiOX9vSPYzcVBCQ5Yb1EKEAKCLf38BXN%2Bq4yboix4Efw%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-zen-discovery-api/22571/3 "2017-07-06T00:27:20Z")