# How to Increase Kibana 8.1 Heap Size Limit?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-8-1-heap-size-limit/300908
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 29, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-8-1-heap-size-limit/300908 "2022-03-29T04:25:35Z")
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### Author: ![wcpoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/da6949/32.png) [@wcpoon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wcpoon)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-8-1-heap-size-limit/300908/1 "2022-03-29T04:25:35Z")

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Hi,

Any idea how to increase Kibana Heap Size Limit?  
Which Node.js configuration file should I change?

My current default Kibana Heap Size is 2 GB only, plan to increase it to 4GB

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### Author: ![jhonalbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@jhonalbert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jhonalbert)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-8-1-heap-size-limit/300908/2 "2022-03-29T06:31:34Z")

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This will be help you ([Use Kibana in a production environment | Kibana Guide [8.1] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#memory))

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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 26, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-8-1-heap-size-limit/300908/3 "2022-04-26T06:32:36Z")

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