Kibana heap size

[Aleksandra_Minko]

Hi,

How can i increase the heap size memory for Kibana. I'm using the version 7.6.

I tried : export NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8000. It didn't work.

Anyone could help me on this.

Thanks !
Aleksandra

[wylie (Wylie Conlon)]

The docs (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#memory) indicate that for deb and rpm installation, you would need to add it to /etc/default/kibana instead. Otherwise, what indicates that this setting isn't working?

[Aleksandra_Minko]

Hello,

I already did that !

But in kibana's dashboard i can see that i have only 1.4GB of memory.

[wylie (Wylie Conlon)]

I see, that indicates that the setting is not working for you. Are you sure that you followed the directions at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#memory exactly, with no typos?

[Aleksandra_Minko]

Something was wrong with Kibana's acces rights.
I added the folowing line to the "/etc/default/kibana" file :

NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=2048"

And now it's working fine.

Thanks.