# What Node to I point to
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-node-to-i-point-to/344096
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 29, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-node-to-i-point-to/344096 "2023-09-29T03:11:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@digital-thought](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/digital-thought)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-node-to-i-point-to/344096/1 "2023-09-29T03:11:58Z")
I have a cluster with 3 x Master, 4 x Hot, 4 x Warm and 2 x Ingest.
With Kibana and when I want to send data to the cluster, what is the recommended set of nodes to point to? Is it just the Masters, Hot or Warm nodes or should I point at all of them?
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-node-to-i-point-to/344096/2 "2023-09-29T03:22:08Z")
> [@digital-thought](#):
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> Is it just the Masters, Hot or Warm nodes or should I point at all of them?
Since you have master dedicated nodes, you should avoid sending any request to them.
With dedicated ingest nodes I would recommend to send data to these nodes and configure Kibana to query the hot nodes.
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### Author:  [@digital-thought](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/digital-thought)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-node-to-i-point-to/344096/3 "2023-09-29T03:23:34Z")
Excellent - Thanks!
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### Author:  [@digital-thought](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/digital-thought)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-node-to-i-point-to/344096/4 "2023-09-29T03:26:02Z")
Actually another related one: when i spin up a new node in the cluster, what should I put as the seeds?
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-node-to-i-point-to/344096/5 "2023-09-29T03:41:14Z")
> [@digital-thought](#):
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> when i spin up a new node in the cluster, what should I put as the seeds?
The setting `discovery.seed_hosts` need to have **only** the master-eligible nodes on the cluster as explained in the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/important-settings.html#unicast.hosts).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-node-to-i-point-to/344096/6 "2023-10-27T03:41:55Z")
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