# Minimum Hardware Requirement for Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minimum-hardware-requirement-for-kibana/374536>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 14, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minimum-hardware-requirement-for-kibana/374536 "2025-02-14T05:39:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Debasis\_Mallick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/debasis_mallick/32/123723_2.png) [@Debasis\_Mallick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Debasis_Mallick)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minimum-hardware-requirement-for-kibana/374536/1 "2025-02-14T05:39:36Z")

</div>

Hi Team,

We search in official documentation of Elastic Search for minimum HW to get install Kibana but not able to found any relevant docs.

Could you please share the documentation link.

Thanks,  
Debasis

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minimum-hardware-requirement-for-kibana/374536/2 "2025-02-14T06:21:07Z")

</div>

I just know by experience that most of the time a 1gb instance is enough for my tests but when I want to use PDF/PNG reports, I need something like 4gb. [Reporting and sharing | Kibana Guide [8.17] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/reporting-getting-started.html#pdf-limitations)

Not sure there's any other recommendations

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Debasis\_Mallick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/debasis_mallick/32/123723_2.png) [@Debasis\_Mallick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Debasis_Mallick)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minimum-hardware-requirement-for-kibana/374536/3 "2025-02-17T04:12:40Z")

</div>

thanks @dadoonet . Is it recommended to deploy Kibana on Elastic nodes or do we need separate dedicated nodes to deploy Kibana.

Thanks,  
Debasis

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minimum-hardware-requirement-for-kibana/374536/4 "2025-02-17T06:30:03Z")

</div>

For production I guess?

It's always better to leave Elasticsearch alone and let it uses all the available resources. So I'd run Kibana elsewhere.