# River plugins distribution

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-plugins-distribution/13820>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 1, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-plugins-distribution/13820 "2013-10-01T17:39:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Karol\_Gwaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/karol_gwaj/32/1324_2.png) [@Karol\_Gwaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karol_Gwaj)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-plugins-distribution/13820/1 "2013-10-01T17:39:16Z")

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Hi Guys,

I wonder how are river plugins distributed in the cluster,

for example, assuming that i have 3 redis nodes and elasticsearch cluster  
with 3 nodes too  
if i will create 3 instances of redis river, will they be equally  
distributed through elasticsearch nodes (one on every node in this case) ?  
or they could all end up on this same node?

Cheers,

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**Author:** ![jprante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jprante/32/44941_2.png) [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-plugins-distribution/13820/2 "2013-10-01T19:01:05Z")

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River instances are not distributed through the cluster, they live on the  
node on which they are created. Only if this node stops or fails, they are  
moved to another node.

Jörg

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/river-plugins-distribution/13820/3 "2017-07-06T02:14:04Z")

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