# How to Increase Kibana Storage

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-storage/219602>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 17, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-storage/219602 "2020-02-17T11:26:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Syed.Ubaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Syed.Ubaid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Syed.Ubaid)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-storage/219602/1 "2020-02-17T11:26:32Z")

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My kibana use full memory 195 out of 200gb how to increase space in kibana server i have 50 gb free disk space. Because of full memory i cannot edit anything like deleting old dashboard or visualization or create new visualization. Please help

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**Author:** ![monfera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monfera/32/26467_2.png) [@monfera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monfera)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-storage/219602/2 "2020-02-17T11:46:59Z")

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Hello, what happens when you restart the Kibana server?

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**Author:** ![Syed.Ubaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Syed.Ubaid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Syed.Ubaid)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-storage/219602/3 "2020-02-17T12:30:21Z")

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i have restart the kibana server still the storage show the same space

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**Author:** ![monfera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monfera/32/26467_2.png) [@monfera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monfera)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-storage/219602/4 "2020-02-17T16:42:15Z")

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Any idea what might cause this large image size? Our only current suspicion is, a very very very large number of old PDF reports. If you can enable your OS to swap to disk, or add disk for swap memory, it may be able to start, then the act of freeing up resources can start

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**Author:** ![monfera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monfera/32/26467_2.png) [@monfera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monfera)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-storage/219602/5 "2020-02-17T16:45:34Z")

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It's also worth checking your directory structure and directory sizes; if the problem is indeed wirth PDF reports, you should be able to delete them at the file (directory) level, without restarting Kibana.

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**Author:** ![Syed.Ubaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Syed.Ubaid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Syed.Ubaid)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-storage/219602/6 "2020-02-19T05:24:12Z")

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Storage is allocated by restarting the machine. Thank you for you guide and support

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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:** [March 18, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-kibana-storage/219602/7 "2020-03-18T05:24:21Z")

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