# Filebeat 8.7.1 utilizing too much of Memory and pods get OOM Killed

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-7-1-utilizing-too-much-of-memory-and-pods-get-oom-killed/344004>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 27, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-7-1-utilizing-too-much-of-memory-and-pods-get-oom-killed/344004 "2023-09-27T16:12:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![gsekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ccd318/32.png) [@gsekar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gsekar)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-7-1-utilizing-too-much-of-memory-and-pods-get-oom-killed/344004/1 "2023-09-27T16:12:19Z")

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We are seeing filebeat pods using a lot of memory and restarting at random intervals due to OOM. Any solution for this? Even in a 3 node kubernetes cluster with very little resources running seeing the issue.

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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 25, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-7-1-utilizing-too-much-of-memory-and-pods-get-oom-killed/344004/2 "2023-10-25T18:13:17Z")

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