# Azure Bitnami Kibana x-pack installation is not working and hangs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/azure-bitnami-kibana-x-pack-installation-is-not-working-and-hangs/124192>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 16, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/azure-bitnami-kibana-x-pack-installation-is-not-working-and-hangs/124192 "2018-03-16T03:00:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sohal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sohal/32/28852_2.png) [@Sohal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sohal)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/azure-bitnami-kibana-x-pack-installation-is-not-working-and-hangs/124192/1 "2018-03-16T03:00:24Z")

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I have a bitnami vm created on azure and I have installed x-pack on elasticsearch. While installing x-pack on kibana, it always get stuck on

**Optimizing and caching browser bundles**

Here is the memory snapshot taken using HTOP

 ![memorySnap](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/0/00eda603172663a712ed6488529f4ab931023a00.png)

I have added following line in /bin/kibana script

NODE\_OPTIONS="${NODE\_OPTIONS:=--max-old-space-size=250}"

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**Author:** ![Sohal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sohal/32/28852_2.png) [@Sohal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sohal)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/azure-bitnami-kibana-x-pack-installation-is-not-working-and-hangs/124192/2 "2018-03-16T03:15:56Z")

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It actually worked.. I restarted the VM and waited for some time (more than 30 mins).

NODE\_OPTIONS="${NODE\_OPTIONS:=--max-old-space-size=250}" did the trick for me

Please refer to

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5170#issuecomment-157655647>

Thanks to the community..keep up the good work

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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:** [April 13, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/azure-bitnami-kibana-x-pack-installation-is-not-working-and-hangs/124192/3 "2018-04-13T03:15:57Z")

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