# How to avoid memory leak on creating role in huge elastic instance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-memory-leak-on-creating-role-in-huge-elastic-instance/289426>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-memory-leak-on-creating-role-in-huge-elastic-instance/289426 "2021-11-17T10:39:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hamidreza\_Ahmadinia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hamidreza_ahmadinia/32/94484_2.png) [@Hamidreza\_Ahmadinia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hamidreza_Ahmadinia)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-memory-leak-on-creating-role-in-huge-elastic-instance/289426/1 "2021-11-17T10:39:40Z")

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hi  
I have an Elasticsearch instane with 25,612,514,771 documents  
When i create role in kibana, unassigned\_shards inceases and status turn to yellow.  
for about 10 minutes Search Latency increases too.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-memory-leak-on-creating-role-in-huge-elastic-instance/289426/2 "2021-11-17T13:53:43Z")

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What is the output of:

```auto
GET /
GET /_cat/nodes?v
GET /_cat/health?v
GET /_cat/indices?v

```

If some outputs are too big, please share them on [gist.github.com](http://gist.github.com) and link them here.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-memory-leak-on-creating-role-in-huge-elastic-instance/289426/3 "2021-11-17T23:24:10Z")

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What is the output from the `_cluster/stats?pretty&human` API?

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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:** [December 15, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-avoid-memory-leak-on-creating-role-in-huge-elastic-instance/289426/4 "2021-12-15T23:25:11Z")

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