# Elastic/Kibana Maintenance **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 25, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-maintenance/317420 "2022-10-25T14:16:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tifty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb9ed0/32.png) [@tifty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tifty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-maintenance/317420/1 "2022-10-25T14:16:37Z")
Hi everyone, I was wondering what steps I should follow for production-grade Elasticsearch maintenance for on-premises deployment. Any resources/idea would be highly appreciated. TIA ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-maintenance/317420/2 "2022-10-26T00:21:23Z")
What sort of maintenance do you have in mind? ---
**Author:** ![tifty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb9ed0/32.png) [@tifty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tifty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-maintenance/317420/3 "2022-10-26T15:28:09Z")
Hi @warkolm, I have no specific use case in mind now. I'm just learning for a job placement where the responsibilities would be to set up and maintain a 3-node elasticsearch and rabbitmq clusters. I want to know what type of maintenance is necessary, or I should look for the generic tasks of a web-based system. Many thanks ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-maintenance/317420/4 "2022-10-30T21:29:24Z")
Keeping Elasticsearch and Kibana up to date is important. As is general system patching. Otherwise make sure you are using things like ILM to manage indices. ---
**Author:** ![tifty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb9ed0/32.png) [@tifty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tifty)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-maintenance/317420/5 "2022-10-31T13:07:11Z")
Thanks @warkolm for sharing. I will follow up if something specific comes up. ---
**Author:** ![tifty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb9ed0/32.png) [@tifty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tifty)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-maintenance/317420/6 "2022-10-31T15:19:16Z")
Hi @warkolm, just to make my question little bit me more specific...I'm working for a on premises deployment with docker-compose for a 3-node cluster. So let me know if you can suggest some guidelines/outline that I should follow for time-to-time maintenance (a routine work or something...), device/hardware space upgrade, or ILM management as you referred. I have found this [blog post](https://blog.nuvotex.de/graceful-maintenance-on-elasticsearch/) from my search so far, but I'm not sure if this is something I should be looking for. Thanks again for your time. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-maintenance/317420/7 "2022-10-31T23:38:07Z")
We don't really provide maintenance processes like this. If you are using docker then that does abstract a lot of overhead of patching the Elasticsearch host, as you simply replace the container with an updated version and you'd be following [Upgrade Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide [8.4] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-upgrade.html). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-kibana-maintenance/317420/8 "2022-11-28T23:38:53Z")
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