# Downgrade kibana version from v7.9 to v7.8
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292 "2020-08-25T13:29:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@FATIMA\_EZZAHRA\_AIT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FATIMA_EZZAHRA_AIT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/1 "2020-08-25T13:29:02Z")
Platform: Centos 7
How can I downgrade the current kibana (version 7.9) to a lower version (version 7.8) ?
I do not have a backup of the previous version, is it possible to downgrade?
and how can I stop kibana to upgrade automatically
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### Author:  [@mattkime](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkime)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/2 "2020-08-25T15:47:27Z")
There isn't a supported downgrade path. What problems are you having?
Elasticsearch / Kibana doesn't upgrade automatically. Is it possible something else performed the upgrade?
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### Author:  [@FATIMA\_EZZAHRA\_AIT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FATIMA_EZZAHRA_AIT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/3 "2020-08-25T15:58:24Z")
i don't how but when i started kibana this morning i got tthis message that my kibana is not compatible with my es version .
when i checked out the version of kibana i found that it s upgraded maybe a packege update cuz this
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### Author:  [@mattkime](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkime)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/4 "2020-08-25T16:01:09Z")
@FATIMA_EZZAHRA_AIT
How are you installing and running Kibana?
If there's a mismatch between Kibana and Elasticsearch, Kibana simply won't run. Your data should be unchanged.
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### Author:  [@FATIMA\_EZZAHRA\_AIT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FATIMA_EZZAHRA_AIT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/5 "2020-08-25T16:25:18Z")
i installed by yum
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### Author:  [@FATIMA\_EZZAHRA\_AIT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FATIMA_EZZAHRA_AIT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/6 "2020-08-25T16:26:34Z")
i removed kibana 7.9 and i installed kibana 7.8 but now kibana won't start i got this
"● kibana.service - Kibana
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since mar. 2020-08-25 18:24:03 CEST; 264ms ago
Process: 188422 ExecStart=/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 188422 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
août 25 18:24:00 ELK systemd[1]: kibana.service failed.
août 25 18:24:03 ELK systemd[1]: kibana.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
août 25 18:24:03 ELK systemd[1]: Stopped Kibana.
août 25 18:24:03 ELK systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for kibana.service
août 25 18:24:03 ELK systemd[1]: Failed to start Kibana.
août 25 18:24:03 ELK systemd[1]: Unit kibana.service entered failed state.
août 25 18:24:03 ELK systemd[1]: kibana.service failed."
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### Author:  [@mattkime](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkime)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/7 "2020-08-25T16:30:07Z")
Can you post kibana logs?
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### Author:  [@FATIMA\_EZZAHRA\_AIT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FATIMA_EZZAHRA_AIT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/8 "2020-08-25T16:42:44Z")
where to find them I try to get /var/log/kibana but didn't find it
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### Author:  [@mattkime](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkime)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/9 "2020-08-25T16:51:34Z")
Perhaps it would be easier to download elasticsearch and kibana directly - [https://www.elastic.co/downloads/](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/)
or try the cloud service - [https://cloud.elastic.co/](https://cloud.elastic.co/)
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### Author:  [@FATIMA\_EZZAHRA\_AIT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FATIMA_EZZAHRA_AIT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/10 "2020-08-25T16:53:41Z")
i m already working on my elk stack it s impossible to redo everything
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### Author:  [@FATIMA\_EZZAHRA\_AIT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FATIMA_EZZAHRA_AIT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/11 "2020-08-25T17:47:09Z")
okey i fixed the problem i updated all the stack and now i have es and kibana in the same version
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### Author:  [@mikekats](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikekats)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/12 "2020-08-26T17:37:07Z")
Is there any solution for this? I faced similar problem when I yum-downgraded elasticsearch 7.9.0 to 7.8.1:
```auto
[2020-08-25T17:48:11,756][ERROR][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler][mk-cen7-ana] uncaught exception in thread [main]
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: ElasticsearchException[failed to bind service]; nested: IndexFormatTooNewException[Format version is not supported (resource BufferedChecksumIndexInput(SimpleFSIndexInput(path="/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/_state/segments_3e6"))): 10 (needs to be between 7 and 9)];
```
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### Author:  [@mattkime](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkime)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/13 "2020-08-26T17:53:24Z")
You'd need to migrate data / documents between clusters. Why are you avoiding 7.9.0?
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### Author:  [@mikekats](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikekats)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/14 "2020-08-27T04:19:45Z")
I am just using a single-node cluster (in production). How to migrate then the data/documents? Is it difficult? Any documentation? I want always to use the latest ELK version, however I recently discovered a useful kibana plugin to investigate.
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### Author:  [@mattkime](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkime)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/15 "2020-08-27T04:27:19Z")
This is a better info than I can provide - [Is it possible to downgrade a cluster without any data loss?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-downgrade-a-cluster-without-any-data-loss/203755/8)
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### Author:  [@mikekats](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikekats)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/16 "2020-08-27T04:28:49Z")
Thanks Matt. I will take a look.
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### Author:  [@neal.keating](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/neal.keating)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/17 "2020-08-27T11:59:47Z")
If you installed via yum and want to exclude it from future updates, just add the following line to the end of the [main] section of your /etc/yum.conf file:
exclude=kibana\* elasticsearch\*
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### Author:  [@esanchezvela](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/esanchezvela)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/18 "2020-08-30T14:42:34Z")
If you installed via yum, probably you enabled the package repository in the elastic.repo file, it must be in `/etc/yum.repos.d/` and their names end in .repo, check them for `enabled=1` replace the one for a zero and save the file. This way you will have to explicitly enable the repository when you are ready to update and it will prevent future updates with your OS packages, use:
```
yum --enablerepo=elastic update kibana
```
to update.
Make sure to do the same for elastic and logstash if you defined individual repositories.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/downgrade-kibana-version-from-v7-9-to-v7-8/246292/19 "2020-09-27T14:42:36Z")
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