# Kibana Monitoring Dashboard shows dubious memory usage for Filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-monitoring-dashboard-shows-dubious-memory-usage-for-filebeat/289645>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [November 18, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-monitoring-dashboard-shows-dubious-memory-usage-for-filebeat/289645 "2021-11-18T22:48:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![jceddy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jceddy/32/94157_2.png) [@jceddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jceddy)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-monitoring-dashboard-shows-dubious-memory-usage-for-filebeat/289645/1 "2021-11-18T22:48:47Z")

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I just set up Filebeat monitoring for my elk stack, and checked out the dashboard in Kibana. How am I meant to read the "Memory (MB)" section? It looks like it is saying the OS has \> 60 terabytes of memory reserved for the beat I am looking at?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/f/dfc14258d3e9d82ba591e0495e30b8bda5e76000.png)

When I look at the Filebeat process using pmap, the total line in kB looks like this (kbytes, RSS, Dirty):

`total kB 2158600 76388 44676`

That means Filebeat is using 2 GB of (virtual) memory, correct?  
Should I just assume the Kibana dashboard has an order of magnitude bug?

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-monitoring-dashboard-shows-dubious-memory-usage-for-filebeat/289645/2 "2021-12-02T20:17:55Z")

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Hi what version of the stack is this?

> [@jceddy](#):
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> Should I just assume the Kibana dashboard has an order of magnitude bug?

It does seem that way. I did not find any issues when searching in the issue tracker. Would you mind filing one here? [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?assignees=&labels=bug&template=Bug\_report.md](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?assignees=&labels=bug&template=Bug_report.md)

A Stack Monitoring developer may need to follow up with you with further questions over Github.

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**Author:** ![jceddy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jceddy/32/94157_2.png) [@jceddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jceddy)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-monitoring-dashboard-shows-dubious-memory-usage-for-filebeat/289645/3 "2021-12-02T20:59:19Z")

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I updated to the latest version and it shows much more reasonable numbers on the dashboard now...looks like a bug that has already been fixed.

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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:** [December 30, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-monitoring-dashboard-shows-dubious-memory-usage-for-filebeat/289645/4 "2021-12-30T20:59:19Z")

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