# How to move to ELK 5 without losing indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-move-to-elk-5-without-losing-indexes/73835>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 3, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-move-to-elk-5-without-losing-indexes/73835 "2017-02-03T11:41:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-move-to-elk-5-without-losing-indexes/73835/1 "2017-02-03T11:41:34Z")

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Hi All ,

Please suggest how to move to ELK 5 without losing the indexes and Kibana visualizations & dashboards of previous version.

Regards,  
Prateek

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-move-to-elk-5-without-losing-indexes/73835/2 "2017-02-03T11:50:10Z")

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From which version are you moving?

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**Author:** ![Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-move-to-elk-5-without-losing-indexes/73835/3 "2017-02-03T11:56:26Z")

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I am currently working on -

1. Elasticsearch- 2.3.4
2. Kibana- 4.5.1

Regards,  
Prateek

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**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:** [February 5, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-move-to-elk-5-without-losing-indexes/73835/4 "2017-02-05T09:31:49Z")

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Install the migration checker, make sure everything is ok, then do an upgrade per the docs.  
You don't need to do much more 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-move-to-elk-5-without-losing-indexes/73835/5 "2017-03-05T09:32:01Z")

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