# Single input for multiple nodes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-input-for-multiple-nodes/154496>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 29, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-input-for-multiple-nodes/154496 "2018-10-29T19:26:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![HallMonitor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hallmonitor/32/135382_2.png) [@HallMonitor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HallMonitor)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-input-for-multiple-nodes/154496/1 "2018-10-29T19:26:08Z")

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I am looking to streamline my logstash configuration files and I was curious if I could send data to my kibana related elasticserach instance (which does not store data) and simply have my remaining two nodes act as storage rather than having input handled by the separate nodes as individual ingest points

To Draw what I am talking about

right now  
logstash-\>es1&es2  
the new version  
logstash-\>esmaster(nostorage)-\>escluster(dual storage nodes)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-input-for-multiple-nodes/154496/2 "2018-10-29T20:37:49Z")

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You can, but if that node goes down then you stop processing. I would just leave it as it.

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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:** [November 26, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-input-for-multiple-nodes/154496/3 "2018-11-26T20:37:49Z")

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