# How to change kibana heap size

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-kibana-heap-size/194979
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 13, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-kibana-heap-size/194979 "2019-08-13T08:29:19Z")
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### Author: ![irobot678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@irobot678](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/irobot678)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-kibana-heap-size/194979/1 "2019-08-13T08:29:19Z")

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Hi,

I'm using elk stack of version 5.5

Any idea on how to set the heapsize for kibana.

I cant able to find any settings related to heap in kibana.yml

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### Author: ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-kibana-heap-size/194979/2 "2019-08-13T22:29:54Z")

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I believe your question is answered here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/18944](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/18944)

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### Author: ![irobot678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@irobot678](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/irobot678)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-kibana-heap-size/194979/3 "2019-08-14T06:22:52Z")

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HI @lukas ,

This is the error i'm struggling to solve ,

1. i already changed the request timeout to 30000 to 90000  
and still i get that status red error i'm pretty sure that because of heap

The heap that being displayed is it kibana's heap or elastic search heap ?

 ![heap_1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/7/87c72c60864a756f47b04dd2ec85e1d7c7af4bf8.png)  
 ![heap_2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/6/76f7c16069e241513d38a7f154b4caa7fccea254.png)

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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: [September 11, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-kibana-heap-size/194979/5 "2019-09-11T10:18:04Z")

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