# Upgrade the Beats:Filebeat without Downtime

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-the-beats-filebeat-without-downtime/204764>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-the-beats-filebeat-without-downtime/204764 "2019-10-23T05:13:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![viratag261](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e79b87/32.png) [@viratag261](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/viratag261)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-the-beats-filebeat-without-downtime/204764/1 "2019-10-23T05:13:16Z")

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Hi,  
I need to upgrade my Filebeat from6.4.1 to 7.4.0. But the upgrade process requires to shut down the beats process. Is there any way that the logs for the time beats is down be served to Logstash.? I mean no loss of logs.  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![pmercado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/59ef9b/32.png) [@pmercado](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmercado)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-the-beats-filebeat-without-downtime/204764/2 "2019-10-23T07:23:50Z")

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Please read here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/7.4/upgrading-6-to-7.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/7.4/upgrading-6-to-7.html)

there is an asset called registry that should be tracking the logs and offset for each file being harvested, there shouldn't be any log loss

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**Author:** ![viratag261](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e79b87/32.png) [@viratag261](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/viratag261)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-the-beats-filebeat-without-downtime/204764/3 "2019-10-31T07:07:24Z")

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Thanks.

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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:** [November 28, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-the-beats-filebeat-without-downtime/204764/4 "2019-11-28T07:07:25Z")

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