Web browser high memory usage for Kibana Dashboard

Hi All,

I use nxlog to collect Windows performance stats and store them in Elasticsearch and have a dashboard with 14 visualizations to show all different stats such as ASP.NET requests, processor time, available memory, disk read/write, etc.

There are two sources of perfmon, A includes 5 servers and B includes 18 servers. Perfmon data are stored into two ES clusters on servers with lots of CPU, RAM, and SSD. The same Kibana dashboard (via export and import) for A and B are on separate Kibana instances.

My issue is when I use Google Chrome to view the dashboard

  • With perfmon dashboard for A (5 servers), the Chrome tab uses around 200MB of memory.
  • With perfmon dashboard for B (18 servers), the Chrome tab uses up to 1GB of memory and is usually very slow to unusable point.

When I try to open the perfmon dashboard for B in Firefox, Firefox will hang because of unresponsive script

Script: http://server:port/bundles/kibana.bundle.js?v=9689:3698

Error: [$rootScope:inprog] $digest already in progress
http://errors.angularjs.org/1.4.7/$rootScope/inprog?p0=%24digest (http://server:port/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=9689:27679)

Version: 4.4.0
Build: 9689

Error: Error: [$rootScope:inprog] $digest already in progress
http://errors.angularjs.org/1.4.7/$rootScope/inprog?p0=%24digest (http://server:port/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=9689:27679)
__WEBPACK_AMD_DEFINE_RESULT__</window.onerror@http://server:port/bundles/commons.bundle.js?v=9689:63832:25

Perfmon index is pretty small, weekly index is about 1 GB. The number of documents retrieved from ES is about 12K for last 1 hour.

I also have big indexes ranging from 10 to 100 GB daily indexes and Kibana dashboards for them work fine on the same Kibana instance that I have trouble viewing the perfmon dashboard.

I wonder if anyone knows possible causes or ways to find out the causes of the issue.

ES: 2.2.0
Kibaba: 4.4.0

Are you experiencing this for an auto-refreshing long-running dashboard? If so, I know there is an related open ticket: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3188

No, this happens right afer I open the dashboard. Have tried many times on different machines

This certainly sounds like an issue with Kibana. Would you mind creating a ticket so you can track? https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new

Any information you could also give on the types of visualizations you have on Dashboard B would be helpful in replicating.

Ticket created https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/7427. Thanks