# Memory usage for a particular directory

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memory-usage-for-a-particular-directory/260553>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memory-usage-for-a-particular-directory/260553 "2021-01-08T14:08:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![akhileshtapdiya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@akhileshtapdiya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akhileshtapdiya)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memory-usage-for-a-particular-directory/260553/1 "2021-01-08T14:08:31Z")

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Hi  
I am tyring to get memory usage information for a particular directory on my server. Is there any way to get this in kibana?

Current system.memory.act.pct give me overall memory at os level and I am interested in memory usage for specific application directory.

Thanks

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**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:** [January 11, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memory-usage-for-a-particular-directory/260553/2 "2021-01-11T00:19:29Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

Are you referring to data from Beats here?

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**Author:** ![akhileshtapdiya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@akhileshtapdiya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akhileshtapdiya)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memory-usage-for-a-particular-directory/260553/3 "2021-01-11T10:13:53Z")

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Yes from Beats..

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**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:** [January 11, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memory-usage-for-a-particular-directory/260553/4 "2021-01-11T21:10:23Z")

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I am not sure if you can get memory usage of a directory from linux?

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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:** [February 8, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memory-usage-for-a-particular-directory/260553/5 "2021-02-08T21:10:23Z")

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