# Any best practices for upgrading my ELK stack?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-best-practices-for-upgrading-my-elk-stack/165277
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 22, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-best-practices-for-upgrading-my-elk-stack/165277 "2019-01-22T17:42:49Z")
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### Author: ![drivera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drivera/32/39900_2.png) [@drivera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drivera)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-best-practices-for-upgrading-my-elk-stack/165277/1 "2019-01-22T17:42:49Z")

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All, I'm currently running the versions below and would like to upgrade to the latest versions. However, my understanding is that it would be better to upgrade to 5.6 first and then to 6.x. Is that correct, can someone offer any advice or experiences on their upgrade? Thanks

Logstash: logstash 5.3.2

Elasticsearch: Version: 5.3.2, Build: 3068195/2017-04-24T16:15:59.481Z, JVM: 1.8.0\_111

Kibana: 5.3.2

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### Author: ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-best-practices-for-upgrading-my-elk-stack/165277/2 "2019-01-23T10:14:48Z")

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Hello @drivera,

yes Its suggestion first to upgrade to 5.6 & than to latest version.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/6.5/upgrading-elastic-stack.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/6.5/upgrading-elastic-stack.html)

Regards  
Shrikant

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### Author: ![drivera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drivera/32/39900_2.png) [@drivera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drivera)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-best-practices-for-upgrading-my-elk-stack/165277/3 "2019-01-23T22:07:59Z")

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Thanks @shrikantgulia appreciate the help.

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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: [February 20, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-best-practices-for-upgrading-my-elk-stack/165277/4 "2019-02-20T22:08:01Z")

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