# JVM spikes over 85% and baseline doesn't drop back down **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 14, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-spikes-over-85-and-baseline-doesnt-drop-back-down/286730 "2021-10-14T13:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cshawler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@cshawler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cshawler)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-spikes-over-85-and-baseline-doesnt-drop-back-down/286730/1 "2021-10-14T13:47:20Z")
We have watchers setup to notify when our JVM increases over 85% we have noticed that once the watcher is triggered the alerts keep firing and the jvm usage never drops back down. Is this normal behavior? ![1hour_JVM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/a/5afcaa5476ffb33df2cd3ed309f6c933c9359615.png) ![7days_jvm](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/8/b861b440881ff7dda5dd16347b4299dbcba2d390.png) We have 5 nodes - 40G RAM each JVM 20G 420 indices 956 shards We have made several changes to try and help the alerts from triggering but nothing seems to be changing. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-spikes-over-85-and-baseline-doesnt-drop-back-down/286730/2 "2021-10-15T00:27:16Z")
What is the output from the `_cluster/stats?pretty&human` API? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-spikes-over-85-and-baseline-doesnt-drop-back-down/286730/3 "2021-11-12T00:27:32Z")
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