# How to change the kibana jvm memory

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-kibana-jvm-memory/338647>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 18, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-kibana-jvm-memory/338647 "2023-07-18T09:44:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![tan\_minkee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tan_minkee/32/90302_2.png) [@tan\_minkee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tan_minkee)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-kibana-jvm-memory/338647/1 "2023-07-18T09:44:48Z")

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I would like to set the kibana jvm memory to 8Gb instead of default value, May I know how to do that?

What I have done is edit the field "--max-old-space-size=8192" in the node.options under /etc/kibana but I am not sure that is enough.

The version of the kibana that I am using is 8.8.2.

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**Author:** ![PodarcisMuralis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/podarcismuralis/32/122606_2.png) [@PodarcisMuralis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PodarcisMuralis)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-kibana-jvm-memory/338647/2 "2023-07-18T09:52:15Z")

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I think you should also add these: to node.options

```auto
-Xms8g
-Xmx8g

```

and restart Kibana.

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**Author:** ![Rios](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rios/32/95745_2.png) [@Rios](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rios)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-kibana-jvm-memory/338647/3 "2023-07-18T10:00:13Z")

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Yes, max-old-space-size is the correct param. Check [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-kibana-memory/335472)

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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:** [August 15, 2023, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-kibana-jvm-memory/338647/4 "2023-08-15T10:00:50Z")

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