# Two Kibana Instances on Single Server

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instances-on-single-server/29160
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 11, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instances-on-single-server/29160 "2015-09-11T22:13:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![ahodges22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@ahodges22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ahodges22)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instances-on-single-server/29160/1 "2015-09-11T22:13:56Z")

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We have two different Elasticsearch clusters in our environment, and each cluster has a separate server that runs Kibana. I want to combine the two UI servers running Kibana into one. Is there a simple way of running two instances of Kibana on the same server, with each one pointing to a different Elasticsearch cluster?

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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: [September 12, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instances-on-single-server/29160/2 "2015-09-12T00:01:01Z")

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Just run two instances on different ports with different configs, solved!

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### Author: ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instances-on-single-server/29160/3 "2015-09-12T05:32:30Z")

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In particular, make sure to make sure each is pointing to a different Kibana config index name.

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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, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instances-on-single-server/29160/4 "2017-07-06T14:13:12Z")

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