# How to rollback Beats and Apm-server?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rollback-beats-and-apm-server/320279
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 1, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rollback-beats-and-apm-server/320279 "2022-12-01T18:22:15Z")
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### Author: ![Leonardo\_Henrique](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leonardo_henrique/32/79658_2.png) [@Leonardo\_Henrique](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Leonardo_Henrique)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rollback-beats-and-apm-server/320279/1 "2022-12-01T18:22:15Z")

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Hey everyone!

I am planning to upgrade my cluster from version 7.3.9 to 8.3 (or the newer) but I have to have a rollback plan in case if things go wrong.

I could find the rollback process about Kibana and Elasticsearch, but I can not find the ones related to Beats and Apm Server.

It comes to my question: is it possible to downgrade beats and apm? What is the correct approach to do that?

Thanks!

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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: [December 1, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rollback-beats-and-apm-server/320279/2 "2022-12-01T22:04:26Z")

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You cannot rollback Elasticsearch or Elasticsearch once they are upgraded. The only option you have is to take a snapshot, remove and reinstall Elasticsearch and Kibana and then restore that snapshot.

Beats is a llitle easier. You will need to remove the old Beat, install the version you want and rerun the setup command.

I don't know about APM, but you would be best off making a new topic over in that category for it 🙂

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### Author: ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rollback-beats-and-apm-server/320279/3 "2022-12-01T22:05:55Z")

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> [@Leonardo\_Henrique](#):
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> I could find the rollback process about Kibana and Elasticsearch

I'm curious, what process did you find since Elasticsearch does not support rollbacks?

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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: [December 29, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-rollback-beats-and-apm-server/320279/4 "2022-12-29T22:06:19Z")

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