# Upgrade from 5.6.2 to 6.5.4

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-5-6-2-to-6-5-4/171794>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 11, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-5-6-2-to-6-5-4/171794 "2019-03-11T15:42:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![andreacfm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andreacfm/32/32243_2.png) [@andreacfm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andreacfm)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-5-6-2-to-6-5-4/171794/1 "2019-03-11T15:42:22Z")

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I need to upgrade a basic elk stack (kibana + logstash) from version 5.6.2 to 6.5.4.  
From the docs seems that the versions are compatible and the that a rolling upgrade is possible. My plan is to start upgrading the elasticsearch cluster and then upgrade kibana and logstash. Question:  
As soon as elasticsearch will be ported to 6.5.4 will kibana and logstash still work or I need to shutm them down in the meantime?

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**Author:** ![yaauie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yaauie/32/23363_2.png) [@yaauie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yaauie)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-5-6-2-to-6-5-4/171794/2 "2019-03-12T00:42:40Z")

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Please see the [upgrade documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/current/upgrading-elastic-stack.html), which has a lot of useful information about pre-requisites, order-of-operations, etc.

Additionally, I would advise upgrading all the way to the current minor/patch of 6.x to ensure that you are caught up with security-related patches (as of this writing, 6.6.1).

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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:** [April 9, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-5-6-2-to-6-5-4/171794/3 "2019-04-09T00:42:41Z")

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