# High CPU usage of ES client node caused by idle Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-cpu-usage-of-es-client-node-caused-by-idle-kibana/125084>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-cpu-usage-of-es-client-node-caused-by-idle-kibana/125084 "2018-03-21T22:53:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![vb4t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a698b9/32.png) [@vb4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vb4t)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-cpu-usage-of-es-client-node-caused-by-idle-kibana/125084/1 "2018-03-21T22:53:33Z")

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Hello. I am running 7 instances of Kibana. Each Kibana is using the same Elasticsearch client node but has its own index in ES. All instances are currently idle but still causing ES client node to have 50% CPU load of my 8core CPU machine. What is Kibana doing? How to prevent idle Kibana to load ES client node so much?

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**Author:** ![vb4t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a698b9/32.png) [@vb4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vb4t)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-cpu-usage-of-es-client-node-caused-by-idle-kibana/125084/2 "2018-03-22T08:53:23Z")

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I found it is a problem with PKI auth. I will create a new topic under Elasticsearch.

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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:** [April 19, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-cpu-usage-of-es-client-node-caused-by-idle-kibana/125084/3 "2018-04-19T08:53:34Z")

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