# Kibana process crashes - high memory usage

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-process-crashes-high-memory-usage/317132>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 20, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-process-crashes-high-memory-usage/317132 "2022-10-20T15:16:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![dslavescu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@dslavescu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dslavescu)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-process-crashes-high-memory-usage/317132/1 "2022-10-20T15:16:12Z")

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Hello,

I am using ELK 7.12.1 and Kibana 7.12.1 in a production env. I am encountering an issue with my Kibana , the process keeps crashing. The app is hosted on 1 VM , having 8 GB of RAM.  
At first i did not do any modifications to the allocated heap memory, so it had standard 2 GB. After some crashes, i also increased the heap to 4 GB which temporarily fixed the issue for a few days. What i observed in the monitoring graphs is that it increases memory usage until max(8GB) and the process crashes. What is strange is that i don't have anything relevant in the logs, not even the OOM.  
What could be consuming so much memory?  
Did anyone encountered this type of issue?

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-process-crashes-high-memory-usage/317132/2 "2022-11-15T01:05:01Z")

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> [@dslavescu](#):
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If the memory heap is probably fine, so something else is consuming memory. Any relevalnt logs? Some more pointers here: [Significantly decrease your Elasticsearch heap memory usage | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/significantly-decrease-your-elasticsearch-heap-memory-usage)

cc @jbudz for more insight when he has time.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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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 13, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-process-crashes-high-memory-usage/317132/3 "2022-12-13T01:05:14Z")

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