# Filebeat Consumer high memeory! **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [December 7, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-consumer-high-memeory/159955 "2018-12-07T15:36:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rehan.pasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@rehan.pasha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rehan.pasha)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-consumer-high-memeory/159955/1 "2018-12-07T15:36:40Z")
Hello there.. We are seeing very high memory consuming by Filebeat application? Can someone shed us some light what could be the reason? What needs to be checked? ---
**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-consumer-high-memeory/159955/2 "2018-12-11T01:55:52Z")
There could be several reasons here. Some thoughts: - What does your `filebeat.yml` look like? What inputs / output / other settings are you using? - Are you using any Filebeat modules? - Are there any errors in the Filebeat logs? - You could try setting up Monitoring for Filebeat (it's free) and look at the charts to see if you see any correlations with memory increase over time? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/monitoring.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/monitoring.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-consumer-high-memeory/159955/3 "2019-01-08T01:55:53Z")
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