# Filebeat OOM **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [August 30, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-oom/146736 "2018-08-30T15:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-oom/146736/1 "2018-08-30T15:39:08Z")
Hi, running filebeat 6.2.2 Today I noticed filebeat was going bonkers... In /var/log/messages I see allot of these... > Aug 30 13:30:43 master-0002 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 19154 (filebeat) score 818 or sacrifice child > Aug 30 13:31:40 master-0002 filebeat: fatal error: runtime: out of memory The metrics output (as you can see it's not monitoring many files: `2018-08-30T15:37:15.442Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:124 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":31800,"time":31803},"total":{"ticks":58140,"time":58143,"value":58140},"user":{"ticks":26340,"time":26340}},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"2e507519-2788-4e40-b4e4-3964f97af9c5","uptime":{"ms":38552}},"memstats":{"gc_next":13559486432,"memory_alloc":9792227856,"memory_total":21843088664,"rss":15713218560}},"filebeat":{"events":{"added":2,"done":2},"harvester":{"open_files":1,"running":1,"started":1}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"output":{"type":"kafka"},"pipeline":{"clients":2,"events":{"active":0,"filtered":2,"total":2}}},"registrar":{"states":{"current":1,"update":2},"writes":2},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":4},"load":{"1":0.66,"15":0.27,"5":0.36,"norm":{"1":0.165,"15":0.0675,"5":0.09}}}}}}` The config: ``` filebeat.prospectors: - type: log paths: - /var/lib/mesos/slave/slaves/*/frameworks/*/executors/*/runs/latest/stdout* - /var/lib/mesos/slave/slaves/*/frameworks/*/executors/*/runs/latest/stderr* exclude_files: ["stdout.logrotate.state", "stdout.logrotate.conf", "stderr.logrotate.state", "stderr.logrotate.conf"] fields: source_type: "framework" fields_under_root: true tail_files: false - type: log paths: - /var/log/mesos/*.log - /var/log/dcos/dcos.log fields: source_type: "dcos" fields_under_root: true tail_files: false output.kafka: hosts: ["xxxxxx:9092"] version: 0.11.0.0 topic: "app-logs" partition.round_robin: reachable_only: true required_acks: -1 max_message_bytes: 2000000 ``` ---
**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-oom/146736/2 "2018-08-31T17:13:10Z")
@javadevmtl You are right, by looking at the metric output you only have 1 file open, if you look at your filebeat log is there any stacktrace present? Is Filebeat generating any errors in the log? I see that you are running 6.2.2, I know that we have fixed a few leaks in 6.3 and also in 6.4 did you try with the latest release of filebeat if you are running into the same issue? ---
**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-oom/146736/3 "2018-08-31T19:33:01Z")
Unfortunately I didn't catch the log while it happened and I restarted since then... ---
**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-oom/146736/4 "2018-09-04T14:01:24Z")
Well I'm running Elastic 6.2.2. Can I run a newer filebeat? We are using kafka as the queue between the 2. ---
**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-oom/146736/5 "2018-09-11T18:47:15Z")
@pierhugues I'm assuming I can use 6.4.0 Filebeat with Elastic 6.2.4 since I have Kafka in the middle? ---
**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-oom/146736/6 "2018-09-11T19:45:30Z")
Yes you should be able to use it in that scenario. ---
**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-oom/146736/7 "2018-09-11T19:47:13Z")
Ok I will have to test and eventually deploy it... Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-oom/146736/8 "2018-10-09T21:47:22Z")
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