Noticed on some servers (Windows Server 2012R2) that filebeat.exe process can use up to 1.5GB of RAM. Service restart solves the problem but I would like to know the reason and ways to troubleshoot. Many thanks.

Filebeat.exe high RAM usage

flodense October 24, 2016, 3:41pm 10

@tudor Done. For reference https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-memory-usage-linux/63772/1

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