Hi everyone, I'm trying to upgrade from Elasticsearch 8.18.0 to 9.0.1, but before upgrading I need to set to read only or delete old created indices with compatibility 7090199, otherwise won't boot up the Elasticsearch service. I found that these indices .reporting-2023* were created with the comp…

Hi Tortoise, Thanks for the Link of the other post! After many tries it worked to me, by assigning to a created user the kibana_system role. Gabriele

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Tortoise May 20, 2025, 6:04am 2

Hello ,

Ideally it should be possible. Please find below post related to same :

Please share if you still facing any issue.

Thanks!!

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