I don't have any paid features of elasticsearch. Older elasticsearch cluster version is 7.17 and the new one is 8.12.

just to be more precise i haven't upgraded from 7.17 to 8.12. These are two different clusters. I want to move logs to a new cluster which is of version 8.12 and the older one is 7.17.

So upgrade to the latest 7.17 go to the upgrade assistant and check that everything is ok if you are running on cloud.elastic.co , just click the upgrade button If not, follow the guide :wink: Upgrade Elasticsearch | Elasticsearch Guide [8.14] | Elastic

without upgrading 7.17 cluster to 8.12 I cannot move logs from this cluster to the cluster version 8.12?

Yes you can. With snapshot & restore which was my first answer. Snapshot in 7.x cluster Restore in 8.x cluster

what are the steps for taking snapshot from 7.17 version of elasticsearch and restoring logs in 8.12 version?

Have a look at Snapshot and restore | Elasticsearch Guide [8.14] | Elastic Basically: Create a repository on the 7.X cluster Create a Snapshot Share the FS folder on the new node or copy the files there over the network Create a repository on the 8.X cluster Restore the snapshot If you are block…

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Hello @dadoonet , how are you? i faced the same work , but i moved data from an ELK version 7.17.22 to an ECK-stack version 8.14.3 ( later I will upgrade to 8.16) managed by elastic-operator 2.14 I had severals problems : 1- when i setted up a new APM ( eck-apm-server) , i found that the new e…

How to migrate older logs stored in one elasticsearch cluster to another new one?

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kriti_dabas (kriti dabas) June 7, 2024, 10:50am 4

I have to go to snapshot and restore in stack management of older cluster and afterwards?

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How to migrate older logs stored in one elasticsearch cluster to another new one?

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