# Monitoring keeps a lot of memory and creates many documents **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [March 21, 2017, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-keeps-a-lot-of-memory-and-creates-many-documents/79369 "2017-03-21T08:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grigorios\_Loukidis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@Grigorios\_Loukidis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Grigorios_Loukidis)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-keeps-a-lot-of-memory-and-creates-many-documents/79369/1 "2017-03-21T08:30:30Z")
Hello! I am using elastic and kibana.I have created an index with documents, but recently I saw that kibana and elastic keep monitoring for every day with many extra documents.Is this necessary or I can go on without them? And if yes, how can I erase them or disable them? ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/b/3b506ba391e82169a86525afd716a1f0862942bb.PNG) ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-keeps-a-lot-of-memory-and-creates-many-documents/79369/2 "2017-03-21T08:32:29Z")
Look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/monitoring-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/monitoring-settings.html) and `xpack.monitoring.history.duration` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-keeps-a-lot-of-memory-and-creates-many-documents/79369/3 "2017-04-18T08:32:28Z")
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