# Docker Desktop used space increase +500Mb per day

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-desktop-used-space-increase-500mb-per-day/201957
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-desktop-used-space-increase-500mb-per-day/201957 "2019-10-02T13:27:38Z")
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### Author: ![jnick1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@jnick1982](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jnick1982)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-desktop-used-space-increase-500mb-per-day/201957/1 "2019-10-02T13:27:38Z")

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Since migrating from 6.4 to 6.8 and now 7.3.2 I notice that the used space from Docker Desktop on Windows 10 increased every day.

I am running a very simple elk stack Elasticsearch/Kibana/Logstash from a docker compose. There are no new values inserted into the index after the creation and I see this behavior even if we are not doing any requests on the index.

I have also try disabling monitoring logging but still the same issue, anyway we have like 125Mb of data/day which doesn't add up to the 500Mbs+ size on the docker desktop used space. I only have those 3 images running, no docker volume, so I know it is not coming from other docker container.

To kind control this issue I am now doing this once a week :

- docker system prune -a --filter label!=do-not-remove
- stop Docker Desktop and services related to it
- in powershell : Optimize-VHD -Path "C:...\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks\DockerDesktop.vhdx" -Mode Quick
- sometime I might also need to just plain delete the "C:...\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks\DockerDesktop.vhdx"
- restart Docker Desktop and all 3 containers and my used spage goes back down as it was just after indexing documents

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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: [October 30, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-desktop-used-space-increase-500mb-per-day/201957/2 "2019-10-30T13:27:43Z")

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