# Elastic/Kibana Excessive Memory Consumption in Docker Causes Tasks to Hang and OOM Kills

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-excessive-memory-consumption-in-docker-causes-tasks-to-hang-and-oom-kills/389876>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [August 23, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-excessive-memory-consumption-in-docker-causes-tasks-to-hang-and-oom-kills/389876 "2026-08-23T07:16:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-excessive-memory-consumption-in-docker-causes-tasks-to-hang-and-oom-kills/389876/2 "2026-08-23T13:50:11Z")

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Closed duplicate of

> [@Server hangs due to high uses CPU and memory by elasticsearch or kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/server-hangs-due-to-high-uses-cpu-and-memory-by-elasticsearch-or-kibana/389879):
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> Kibana version: 9.5.0 Elasticsearch version: 9.5.0 Server OS version: 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat) Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.): Docker Describe the bug: Kibana is consuming an unexpectedly high amount of memory when running in a Docker environment. Over time, Kibana's memory usage continues to increase, causing tasks to become stuck or remain incomplete. As memory consumption reaches the available system/container limit, the server eventually trig…

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