# Controlling Filebeat Memory Usage

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controlling-filebeat-memory-usage/188913>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controlling-filebeat-memory-usage/188913 "2019-07-04T12:45:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controlling-filebeat-memory-usage/188913/1 "2019-07-04T12:45:24Z")

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Hi,  
Is there information on best practices for minimising the memory footprint of filebeat? Since installing it I've been seeing elasticsearch get oom-killed every few days on the VM it runs on.

Regards,  
D

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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:** [August 1, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controlling-filebeat-memory-usage/188913/2 "2019-08-01T14:45:39Z")

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