# How to upgrade?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-upgrade/47273>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 13, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-upgrade/47273 "2016-04-13T15:42:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Devnull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@Devnull](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Devnull)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-upgrade/47273/1 "2016-04-13T15:42:42Z")

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In the docs ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/index.html)) there appears to be no reference whatsoever as to how to upgrade from one version to another.

Please clarify.

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-upgrade/47273/2 "2016-04-13T16:17:44Z")

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Which versions are you updating from/to?

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**Author:** ![Devnull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@Devnull](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Devnull)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-upgrade/47273/3 "2016-04-13T16:47:44Z")

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Oops, sorry for missing that detail ! 😯

4.3.1-linux-x64 to 4.5

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-upgrade/47273/4 "2016-04-13T19:10:57Z")

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Should simply be a matter of taking your 4.3/config/kibana.yml and moving it into the 4.5/config directory. Please let me know if you run into any issues!

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**Author:** ![Akita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Akita](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akita)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-upgrade/47273/5 "2016-04-26T09:01:01Z")

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Hello,

I'm also upgrading and I have a problem with the .kibana index.  
Elasticsearch from 2.1.1 to 2.3.1 and Kibana from 4.3.1 to 4.5.0, on Windows 7 x64.

I launched 2.3.1 nodes and indices migrates from 2.1.1 to 2.3.1 just fine, exept my .kibana index.  
I moved the 4.3/config/kibana.yml to 4.5/config/kibana.yml but i didn't help.  
When I have one 2.1.1 node and multiple 2.3.1 nodes, it hosts the .kibana index, and I can see its secundary shard jumping from 2.3.1 node to 2.3.1 node in a second, but never staying.

So now I must run 2.3.1 nodes for data, one or two 2.1.1 nodes to host the .kibana index, and kibana 4.3.1 to use kibana.

How can I migrate properly and not lose Kibana visus and dashboards?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-upgrade/47273/6 "2017-07-06T13:55:05Z")

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