# My kibana instance has randomly slow performace **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [May 17, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-instance-has-randomly-slow-performace/273191 "2021-05-17T15:20:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nsimi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nsimi/32/39013_2.png) [@nsimi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nsimi)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-instance-has-randomly-slow-performace/273191/1 "2021-05-17T15:20:59Z")
Hello All, I am having an issue where my Kibana instance randomly will take long times to carry out actions, sometimes even fetching the list of spaces can take 20s. I have a 3 node ES cluster, and a single node hosting Kibana. I tried an entirely separate Kibana instance but it had no impact on the behavior of kibana. I went to the developer tools section of kibana and wrote a simple query to hit ES with and then timed it and sometimes it will complete in 20-50ms and other times it will take 9-20s. I then try that same query from curl against my ES cluster and I see that ES always completes the query in sub 100ms. I have tried altering the configuration of Kibana to point at each node in ES individually to see if it was a particular node that was causing the issue and that had no impact. I did see this pattern in the metrics for kibana: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/0/801c22e0e4a504e357cdab1ec7839e7c9c8e66f1.png) It seems suspicious to me that the memory seems to have that pattern. Anyone have any ideas on how I can resolve this? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![dosant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dosant/32/64489_2.png) [@dosant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dosant)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-instance-has-randomly-slow-performace/273191/2 "2021-05-17T15:43:50Z")
Hi @nsimi, what Kibana version is this? There is a known possible performance issue in 7.12.0 fixed in 7.12.1 [Kibana 7.12.0 | Kibana Guide [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.12/release-notes-7.12.0.html#known-issues-v7.12.0). I am curious if you are hitting that one. ---
**Author:** ![nsimi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nsimi/32/39013_2.png) [@nsimi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nsimi)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-instance-has-randomly-slow-performace/273191/4 "2021-05-17T16:13:53Z")
Hello Anton, Yes I am on 7.12.0 for both es and Kibana. Would I just need to update Kibana to resolve this? Anything else I should be aware of if I do that? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![dosant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dosant/32/64489_2.png) [@dosant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dosant)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-instance-has-randomly-slow-performace/273191/5 "2021-05-17T16:36:27Z")
Yes, just upgrading would resolve this (if you indeed are being hit by this issue) Alternatively, you could try a workaround for 7.12.0 described in the issue: [[Search Sessions] Kibana fails to update or delete sessions in non-default space · Issue #96124 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/96124) ---
**Author:** ![nsimi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nsimi/32/39013_2.png) [@nsimi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nsimi)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-instance-has-randomly-slow-performace/273191/6 "2021-05-17T16:49:34Z")
Hello Anton, You suggestion to upgrade to 7.12.1 appears to have resolved my issue. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-kibana-instance-has-randomly-slow-performace/273191/7 "2021-06-14T16:50:06Z")
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