# Elastic consuming a lot of server ram and cpu

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-consuming-a-lot-of-server-ram-and-cpu/346246>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** dotnet\
**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-consuming-a-lot-of-server-ram-and-cpu/346246 "2023-11-01T21:26:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Vieira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lucas_vieira/32/127142_2.png) [@Lucas\_Vieira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lucas_Vieira)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-consuming-a-lot-of-server-ram-and-cpu/346246/1 "2023-11-01T21:26:59Z")

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Hello,  
Elastic APM is continuously occupying above 4 gigabytes of ram on the server

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/a/0a51daf40d4c2bb55c7155204b9acdc4bcae7155.jpeg)

Could you suggest/help how to reduce RAM usage and CPU consumption.

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Martijn\_Laarman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/martijn_laarman/32/4410_2.png) [@Martijn\_Laarman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Martijn_Laarman)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-consuming-a-lot-of-server-ram-and-cpu/346246/2 "2023-11-15T10:49:48Z")

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That should definitely NOT be happening.

Are you able to share a memory dump (privately?) and tell us more about how this application is run and what APM features are enabled?

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Vieira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lucas_vieira/32/127142_2.png) [@Lucas\_Vieira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lucas_Vieira)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-consuming-a-lot-of-server-ram-and-cpu/346246/3 "2023-11-16T14:23:10Z")

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@Martijn_Laarman The memory dump reached 4 gigabytes progressively. The applications that are consuming a lot of memory with apm enabled are microservices in .net core 6 and are performed with an interval of 5 seconds on average with  
APM Settings Enabled:  
"LogLevel": "Debug"  
"CaptureBody" : "all"  
"TransactionSampleRate": 0.2  
"StackTraceLimit": 0,  
"SpanStackTraceMinDuration": "10ms",  
"CaptureHeaders": false,  
"MetricsInterval": "1s",  
"Enabled": true

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**Author:** ![Martijn\_Laarman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/martijn_laarman/32/4410_2.png) [@Martijn\_Laarman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Martijn_Laarman)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-consuming-a-lot-of-server-ram-and-cpu/346246/4 "2023-11-16T14:52:27Z")

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@Lucas_Vieira I messaged you a private link to upload the dump if you have it.

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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:** [December 14, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-consuming-a-lot-of-server-ram-and-cpu/346246/5 "2023-12-14T14:52:33Z")

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