# Tribenode masternotdiscoveredexception **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 28, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tribenode-masternotdiscoveredexception/33166 "2015-10-28T16:25:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bennett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bennett/32/4903_2.png) [@bennett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bennett)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tribenode-masternotdiscoveredexception/33166/1 "2015-10-28T16:25:53Z")
Hi, I'm trying to set up a tribe node to look at clusters in different datacenters. When I hook up kibana and try to add visualization or a dashboard i keep hitting: Kibana: MasterNotDiscoveredException[waited for [30s]] Error: MasterNotDiscoveredException[waited for [30s]] ErrorAbstract@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:83947:28](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:83947:28) StatusCodeError@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:84096:23](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:84096:23) respond@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:85289:33](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:85289:33) checkRespForFailure@[http://host.domain.com5601/index.js?\_b=7562:85257:14](http://host.domain.com5601/index.js?_b=7562:85257:14) [http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:83895:9](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:83895:9) wrappedErrback@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:20902:78](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:20902:78) wrappedErrback@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:20902:78](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:20902:78) wrappedErrback@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:20902:78](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:20902:78) [http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:21035:76](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:21035:76) $eval@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:22022:28](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:22022:28) $digest@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:21834:36](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:21834:36) $apply@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:22126:31](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:22126:31) done@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:17661:51](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:17661:51) completeRequest@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:17875:15](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:17875:15) onreadystatechange@[http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?\_b=7562:17814:26](http://host.domain.com:5601/index.js?_b=7562:17814:26) One time I had the tribenode indexing to it's local cluster master (becuase it was hooked up as a regular kibana node), but then the next day it went back to having no master. is there a step that i'm missing? here is my elasticsearch.yml: node: data: false master: false name: [host.domain.com](http://host.domain.com) path: data: /spotify/var/elasticsearch logs: /spotify/log/elasticsearch tribe: on\_conflict: perfer\_tribe-sjc1 tribe-ash2: cluster: name: cluster-ash2 discovery: zen: ping: multicast: enabled: false unicast: hosts: - list of hosts tribe-lon6: cluster: name: cluster-lon6 discovery: zen: ping: multicast: enabled: false unicast: hosts: - list of hosts tribe-sjc1: cluster: name: cluster-sjc1 discovery: zen: ping: multicast: enabled: false unicast: hosts: - list of hosts tribe-sto3: cluster: name: cluster-sto3 discovery: zen: ping: multicast: enabled: false unicast: hosts: - list of hosts ---
**Author:** ![tinle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@tinle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tinle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tribenode-masternotdiscoveredexception/33166/2 "2015-10-28T18:51:19Z")
Tribe node can not create indices. It can only update them. So you will have to precreate kibana index -- .kibana in one of your downstream clusters. Tin ---
**Author:** ![bennett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bennett/32/4903_2.png) [@bennett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bennett)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tribenode-masternotdiscoveredexception/33166/3 "2015-10-28T18:58:15Z")
I did that. and it initially worked, but the next day, it stopped working. the name of the index didn't change. ---
**Author:** ![tinle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@tinle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tinle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tribenode-masternotdiscoveredexception/33166/4 "2015-10-28T19:12:35Z")
What version of ES? Did you create the kibana index in one downstream or all of them? It might help to use tribe prefer config to control where it look for your tribe kibana index from. It's a pain..... 😫 > ---
**Author:** ![bennett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bennett/32/4903_2.png) [@bennett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bennett)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tribenode-masternotdiscoveredexception/33166/5 "2015-10-28T19:14:30Z")
OH actually I think i fixed it. Puppet wrote over my kibana index and changed it. I was working off a branch before and it looks like the master overwrote it. GAH! So hopefully this will be ok going forward. thanks for replying! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tribenode-masternotdiscoveredexception/33166/6 "2017-07-05T23:42:04Z")