# Metricbeat memory usage

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-memory-usage/147670>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-memory-usage/147670 "2018-09-07T07:42:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Zane\_Storha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/bc8723/32.png) [@Zane\_Storha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zane_Storha)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-memory-usage/147670/1 "2018-09-07T07:42:46Z")

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What is the most effective way to decrease size of indexes ?  
 ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/c/4caf2aca509a4707d1fae442d1006c2c245192b8.png)  
I'ts already more than 15gb big per day and can't see any data in Kibana longer than last 15 minutes.

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**Author:** ![Zane\_Storha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/bc8723/32.png) [@Zane\_Storha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zane_Storha)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-memory-usage/147670/2 "2018-09-07T12:25:56Z")

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UP! ..

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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:** [October 5, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-memory-usage/147670/3 "2018-10-05T12:25:56Z")

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