diff --git a/deploy/cloudfoundry/filebeat/manifest.yml b/deploy/cloudfoundry/filebeat/manifest.yml
index 26ec5a0b958..5c424823cb3 100644
--- a/deploy/cloudfoundry/filebeat/manifest.yml
+++ b/deploy/cloudfoundry/filebeat/manifest.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 applications:
 - name: filebeat
-  memory: 256M
+  memory: 512M
   instances: 1
   buildpacks:
   - binary_buildpack
diff --git a/deploy/cloudfoundry/metricbeat/manifest.yml b/deploy/cloudfoundry/metricbeat/manifest.yml
index 40f0459b8da..1a2bb025683 100644
--- a/deploy/cloudfoundry/metricbeat/manifest.yml
+++ b/deploy/cloudfoundry/metricbeat/manifest.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 applications:
   - name: metricbeat
-    memory: 256M
+    memory: 512M
     instances: 1
     buildpacks:
     - binary_buildpack
diff --git a/filebeat/docs/running-on-cloudfoundry.asciidoc b/filebeat/docs/running-on-cloudfoundry.asciidoc
index ae9603dc012..c08efa30c5f 100644
--- a/filebeat/docs/running-on-cloudfoundry.asciidoc
+++ b/filebeat/docs/running-on-cloudfoundry.asciidoc
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ To check the status, run:
 $ cf apps
 
 name       requested state   instances   memory   disk   urls
-filebeat   started           1/1         256M     1G
+filebeat   started           1/1         512M     1G
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 Log events should start flowing to Elasticsearch. The events are annotated with
diff --git a/metricbeat/docs/running-on-cloudfoundry.asciidoc b/metricbeat/docs/running-on-cloudfoundry.asciidoc
index 2988e4d3a8b..5fdf20c9f72 100644
--- a/metricbeat/docs/running-on-cloudfoundry.asciidoc
+++ b/metricbeat/docs/running-on-cloudfoundry.asciidoc
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ To check the status, run:
 $ cf apps
 
 name         requested state   instances   memory   disk   urls
-metricbeat   started           1/1         256M     1G
+metricbeat   started           1/1         512M     1G
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 Metrics should start flowing to Elasticsearch. The events are annotated with