# New FileBeat Version required new "Ingest Pipeline"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-filebeat-version-required-new-ingest-pipeline/307497>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 17, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-filebeat-version-required-new-ingest-pipeline/307497 "2022-06-17T10:46:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![joshn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@joshn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshn)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-filebeat-version-required-new-ingest-pipeline/307497/1 "2022-06-17T10:46:12Z")

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hey,

So I updated filebeat on a couple machines and got an error:

```auto
"reason"=>"pipeline with id [filebeat-7.17.4-system-syslog-pipeline] does not exist"

```

After doing some digging, this was because I was previosuly using version 7.17.3.

So I had to manually create a new Ingest Pipeline with:

```auto
sudo filebeat setup -E output.logstash.enabled=false -E output.elasticsearch.hosts=['EMEA-ES-01.mydomain.com:9200'] -E setup.kibana.host=EMEA-kibana-01.mydomain.com:5601

```

Question:

Is there an easier/automated way to go about doing this when filebeat upgrades to a new version in the future?

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**Author:** ![kelk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kelk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kelk)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-filebeat-version-required-new-ingest-pipeline/307497/2 "2022-06-18T15:50:22Z")

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What we do is

- We create an "ephemeral/container" filebeat instance (eg 7.17.4) with the version you are planning to install
- This will complement existing ingest versions (eg 7.17.3). This way you can smoothly upgrade while agents from previous version is also sending data
- Do the ingest pipeline setup in Elastic Cluster as a pre-task. Test with an agent before rolling out in PROD
- The above is a one time task per Elastic Cluster per Filebeat version

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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 16, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-filebeat-version-required-new-ingest-pipeline/307497/3 "2022-07-16T15:50:30Z")

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