# Kibana needs more memory to generate this report. Check RAM requirements

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-needs-more-memory-to-generate-this-report-check-ram-requirements/384934>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 5, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-needs-more-memory-to-generate-this-report-check-ram-requirements/384934 "2026-02-05T17:15:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![francescoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@francescoa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/francescoa)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-needs-more-memory-to-generate-this-report-check-ram-requirements/384934/1 "2026-02-05T17:15:29Z")

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Hi everyone 🙂

We have Kibana v8.13.4 exposed on an AWS EC2 instance. It’s the only one Kibana instance we have.

When I try to create a report, the section **Management \> Alerts and Insights \> Reporting** sometimes randomly throws the following error:

```auto
Kibana needs more memory to generate this report. Check RAM requirements.

```

It doesn't always happen; sometimes it doesn't give this error.

The RAM of the AWS EC2 has been increased from 4 to 8GB.  
I also changed the `--max-old-space-size` parameter to `8192`, but nothing changed.

What am I doing wrong?

Have a great day! 😃