# Why does kibana use so much memory?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-kibana-use-so-much-memory/44502>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 16, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-kibana-use-so-much-memory/44502 "2016-03-16T01:45:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![abcfy2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abcfy2/32/453_2.png) [@abcfy2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abcfy2)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-kibana-use-so-much-memory/44502/1 "2016-03-16T01:45:08Z")

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I find kibana will use much more memory in my host.

Here is the screenshot about htop:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/2/285a14670ab9a694cb3ec2d5efaa7d7181b1323c.png)

Kibana has been used for 46.8% memory, while elasticsearch just used 17%, and logstash used 12.4%.

Here is the screenshot about kibana status page:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/7/730ecb2335e022ba1c0b1e33f40207f029754d4e.png)

My OS is ubuntu server 14.04.4 LTS, and kibana version is 4.4.2, installed from the official repo.

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**Author:** ![anhlqn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anhlqn/32/5454_2.png) [@anhlqn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anhlqn)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-kibana-use-so-much-memory/44502/2 "2016-03-16T18:39:33Z")

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1GB of memory is not a lot for Kibana though. Are you running lots of aggregation/searching on Kibana?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-kibana-use-so-much-memory/44502/3 "2017-07-06T13:58:55Z")

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