I'll start off with a brief summary of the setup: Single node, ES 6.4.2, Debian 9 with OpenJDK 1.8.0_212 +/- 500 indexes, 2500 shards, 12M documents, 3.5 GB data. x-pack monitoring, 60s samples, 7 days retention What we are experiencing is that the JVM heap is slowly creeping up. Once it hits 10…

Hi @TomCan , there is a memory leak bug that affects version 6.4.1 through 6.5.2, fixed by #36308 . I suggest upgrading to a version ≥ 6.5.3 and report back if the problem persists.

JVM heap slowly fills until server becomes unresponsive

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Sai_Birada (Sai Birada) March 25, 2019, 8:35am 6

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JVM heap slowly fills until server becomes unresponsive

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