Hi, I’m experiencing high memory usage (and high CPU) on AWS EC2 machine running Grafana in docker. Machine type: m5.xlarge (4 cores, 16 GB RAM) Grafana version: v6.2.4 (ee01897) Data sources: InfluxDB multiple data sources (running on a different machine) [Capture]

What is your configuration? How many dashboards, alert rules, users? Do you use provisioning of dashboards? Do you use server side png rendering?

Dashboards - 10, planning to add more in the future. Alert rules - none, I use Chronograf/Kapacitor for alerts. Users - 10, one admin, all others are viewers. Provisioning - no, but I have different data sources for different dashboards. Server Side PNG rendering - IDK, please elaborate? Thanks …

Maybe provisioning is a problem. Check dashboards version histories. Similar issue: [image] Grafana.db keeps growing Grafana Hello everyone, I’ve noticed that grafana.db has consumed 15GB of disk space on my VM. I’m not sure what the root cause of the issue is. I found …

Thank you for your answer, However, I don’t use provisioning, I changed the config and re-checked, there are no files under provisioning folder. Also, I have no disc space problems, only memory. Disc space usage is pretty stable, with some minor changes, as is the size of grafana.db file. After r…

Hello, I have the same problem, any news? I’m not running Grafana on a docker but still the issue. Regards

High memory usage when running Grafana in docker

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jangaraj August 15, 2019, 11:17am 4

Maybe provisioning is a problem. Check dashboards version histories. Similar issue:

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High memory usage when running Grafana in docker

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