# Do we have a light weight Kibana?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-have-a-light-weight-kibana/245070
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 15, 2020, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-have-a-light-weight-kibana/245070 "2020-08-15T05:23:35Z")
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### Author:  [@Charele](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Charele)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2020, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-have-a-light-weight-kibana/245070/1 "2020-08-15T05:23:35Z")
When I run Kibana,it will create many indeces on my cluster,
ilm-history-2-000001
.kibana\_task\_manager\_1
.kibana\_1
.kibana-event-log-7.8.1-000001
.apm-custom-link
.apm-agent-configuration...
These indices are unnecessary for me,
and the Kibana will do periodic operations (index, search...) on my cluster.
In fact,I only need the "Dev Tools" function.
(the es-head is so weak:-)
So my question,do we have a light weight version Kibana?
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### Author:  [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-have-a-light-weight-kibana/245070/2 "2020-08-18T08:16:26Z")
You can use the `kibana.yml` file to disable parts of Kibana (e.g. to disable apm use `xpack.apm.enabled ` as described here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/apm-settings-in-kibana.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/apm-settings-in-kibana.html)), but some of those indices are necessary for Kibana to function at all.
As long as you are not actively using the other parts of Kibana, the housekeeping tasks Kibana will run from time to time are very lightweight and shouldn't interrupt even small clusters, so they are normally not a problem.
Did you notice any performance problems due to this?
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### Author:  [@Charele](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Charele)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-have-a-light-weight-kibana/245070/3 "2020-08-19T02:45:15Z")
Thank for reply.
No performance problems on Kibana.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-have-a-light-weight-kibana/245070/4 "2020-09-16T02:45:19Z")
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