# Upgrade kibana and ES

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-and-es/160583>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 12, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-and-es/160583 "2018-12-12T16:36:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ilanas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@ilanas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ilanas)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-and-es/160583/1 "2018-12-12T16:36:10Z")

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Hello, y try to upgrade kibana in dev environment and i install 6.5.3 of kibana, logstash and elasticsearch. I export al de saved object and i import in the new envirnment. how can i export/import the indexes and the indexes data?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-and-es/160583/2 "2018-12-12T17:10:55Z")

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Why not just keeping the existing elasticsearch data dir within your new version of elasticsearch?

That's how I'm upgrading everytime without the need of doing anything else than installing the binaries. (I'm actually configuring `path.data` to be a fixed dir outside the installation dir).

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**Author:** ![ilanas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@ilanas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ilanas)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-and-es/160583/3 "2018-12-13T08:03:27Z")

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Thank you! can you say me where is the directory of the elasticsearch data? in kibana i hava a data folder but in elasticsearch i don't show this directory.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-and-es/160583/4 "2018-12-13T10:16:24Z")

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It depends on how you installed it. If you downloaded for example the `zip` or `tar.gz` packages, it's documented here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/zip-targz.html#zip-targz-layout](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/zip-targz.html#zip-targz-layout)

Look at the other pages if you installed it in a different way. In which case I believe you just need to upgrade the version without thinking of it.

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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:** [January 10, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-kibana-and-es/160583/5 "2019-01-10T10:16:29Z")

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