# The upgrading of the Elastic Core on premise environment (Kibana, Logstash and Elastic Cluster) from 7.17.28 to 8.17, any recommendations? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 23, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-upgrading-of-the-elastic-core-on-premise-environment-kibana-logstash-and-elastic-cluster-from-7-17-28-to-8-17-any-recommendations/377465 "2025-04-23T22:18:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carbon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carbon/32/142383_2.png) [@carbon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carbon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-upgrading-of-the-elastic-core-on-premise-environment-kibana-logstash-and-elastic-cluster-from-7-17-28-to-8-17-any-recommendations/377465/1 "2025-04-23T22:18:27Z")
The upgrading of the Elastic Core on premise environment (Kibana, Logstash and Elastic Cluster with 3 nodes) from 7.17.28 to 8.17, any recommendations? ---
**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:** [April 24, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-upgrading-of-the-elastic-core-on-premise-environment-kibana-logstash-and-elastic-cluster-from-7-17-28-to-8-17-any-recommendations/377465/2 "2025-04-24T04:38:03Z")
I would recommend going to 8.18 instead of 8.17. The [official upgrade documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.18/setup-upgrade.html) contains a lot of guidance and recommendations. Is there anything missing there? ---
**Author:** ![carbon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carbon/32/142383_2.png) [@carbon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carbon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-upgrading-of-the-elastic-core-on-premise-environment-kibana-logstash-and-elastic-cluster-from-7-17-28-to-8-17-any-recommendations/377465/3 "2025-04-24T13:48:15Z")
Many thanks Christian for your recommendation, I`m wondering the Upgrade Assistant tells me that I should go up to 8.0.1, is it advisable to go up to 8.18 directly from 7.17.28? I must consider something in particular with the security layer, with the current digital certificates, I will need to regenerate these certificates for version 8.\* ---
**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:** [April 24, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-upgrading-of-the-elastic-core-on-premise-environment-kibana-logstash-and-elastic-cluster-from-7-17-28-to-8-17-any-recommendations/377465/4 "2025-04-24T13:52:54Z")
Once you have addressed all potential issue identified by the migration assistant in 7.17 I believe you should go directly to 8.18. When I have upgraded I have never gone via 8.0 (apart from when that was the latest version). ---
**Author:** ![carbon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carbon/32/142383_2.png) [@carbon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carbon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-upgrading-of-the-elastic-core-on-premise-environment-kibana-logstash-and-elastic-cluster-from-7-17-28-to-8-17-any-recommendations/377465/5 "2025-04-24T15:15:03Z")
> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#): > > Once you have addressed all potential issue identified by the migration assistant in 7.17 I believe you should go directly to 8.18. When I have upgraded I have never gone via 8.0 (apart from when that was the latest version). Great Christian ..I will work on issues identified, thanks