Multiple Kibana instances using opendistro distribution

Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana
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Hello,

I installed 1 Kibana instance on a server and I would like to install another identical Kibana instance on a 2nd server for high availability.
For the installation I am using the opendistroforelasticsearch-kibana-1.13.2-1.x86_64 RPM package on a CentOS 7 server.

Kibana config :
server.name: kibanalog01
server.port: 5601
server.host: 10.200.46.101
elasticsearch.hosts:

  • https://elasprod01:9200
  • https://elasprod02:9200
  • https://elasprod03:9200
    elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: none
    elasticsearch.username: kibanaserver
    elasticsearch.password: XXXX
    elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [“securitytenant”,“Authorization”]
    opendistro_security.multitenancy.enabled: true
    opendistro_security.multitenancy.tenants.preferred: [“Private”, “Global”]
    opendistro_security.readonly_mode.roles: [“kibana_read_only”]
    opendistro_security.cookie.secure: false
    newsfeed.enabled: false
    telemetry.optIn: false
    telemetry.enabled: false
    security.showInsecureClusterWarning: false
    map.includeElasticMapsService: false

Questions :
What are the configuration parameters to modify to allow the execution of 2 Kibana instances using opendistro distribution ?
Do I need to configure the server.uuid parameter or equivalent parameters to xpack.security.encryptionKey or xpack.reporting.encryptionKey as shown in the doc: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en /kibana/current/production.html#load-balancing-kibana?

Thanks and regards,
Miguel

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You have to install another kibana instance with a different port I guess

3

As the 2 instances are running on different vms I guess I can keep the same port. I will try using the same configuration for the 2 instances (except server.name and server.host) and we’ll see !
Thank you for your answer @BlackMetalz !