Doesn't really matter as Kibana itself uses very little resources, the queries are still going to your cluster. You do need to consider security etc though.
You can even run it as an elasticsearch "plugin" if you put it in the plugins directory and the access it via $host:9200/_plugin/kibana. Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 20 August 2014 05:01, Andrew Ruslander <[email protected]> wrote: > I couldn't find any official documentation or best practices, though it > seems implied in the Kibana installation instructions, but is there any > word on whether or not Kibana3 should or should not live on a node in the > ES cluster? Thoughts on pros and cons of doing so? > > Pro - one less box to stand up > Con - performance impacts on the ES node who drew the short straw? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/9d8c5951-8773-4f2f-ac0f-6b54becd6a96%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/9d8c5951-8773-4f2f-ac0f-6b54becd6a96%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624bFj-CdtAMsavVxygReYf4Q9GcpYcQ7gnFhoyegyqzZHA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
