Elastic-Agent Upgradation

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Hi Team,

We are running ELK cluster - 8.13.2 and we have installed elastic-agent -8.13.2 . We need to upgrade the cluster and elastic agent . I have a question that i can upgrade ELK cluster but don’t know how to upgrade elastic-agent , elastic-agent upgrade itself while upgrading ELK or i need to download the tar or rpm file again and installed.

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Hi,

It depends on the form of the elastic-agent you use and your environment. Elastic Agent does not update automatically when upgrading Elastic. Instead, you need to invoke the update manually.

The easiest way is to go to the Fleet UI in Kibana, and filter for the "Upgrade available":
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Then, select the actions for the agent you want to upgrade and select Upgrade:

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Note: This may not work as easily in an airgapped environment or if you use the agent in a docker container. You will need a manual update in this case.

Best regards
Wolfram