# Reinstall vs upgrade beats

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reinstall-vs-upgrade-beats/179468>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 3, 2019, 5:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reinstall-vs-upgrade-beats/179468 "2019-05-03T05:21:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![syedsfayaz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/syedsfayaz/32/46657_2.png) [@syedsfayaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/syedsfayaz)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 5:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reinstall-vs-upgrade-beats/179468/1 "2019-05-03T05:21:38Z")

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Hi

I have a question. I have recently upgraded Elastic search and kibana to 7 from 6.7.

On few of the servers I have prior to 6.7 beats version running. What happens if I uninstall 6.x version and resinstall filebeat7 instead of upgrading to 6.7 and then to 7.

Is there any disadvantage doing that.

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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:** [May 3, 2019, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reinstall-vs-upgrade-beats/179468/2 "2019-05-03T06:24:12Z")

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Other than the work you need to do, not really.

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**Author:** ![syedsfayaz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/syedsfayaz/32/46657_2.png) [@syedsfayaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/syedsfayaz)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reinstall-vs-upgrade-beats/179468/3 "2019-05-03T14:38:05Z")

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Will I have lot of rework to be done and what will happen to the indices created by the old beats. Will it be still accessible or I cannot access it due to the new template and mappings from beats 7.

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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:** [May 31, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reinstall-vs-upgrade-beats/179468/4 "2019-05-31T14:42:04Z")

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