Upgrade thoughts

[arcsons (Jon L)]

Hi,

I’ve never upgraded an Elastic Stack before, and it seems quite challenging!
Is it just me who thinks that? I guess there’s room for improvement.
I’m currently running version 8.15 and considering an upgrade to 8.19.

Any tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Musab_Dogan]

Please check this documentation. It’s well prepared to prepare Elastic Stack upgrade. Upgrade your deployment, cluster, or orchestrator | Elastic Docs

Upgrade from 8.15 to 8.19 is a minor version upgrade which is the easiest one. Multiple major version upgrade can be a real headache.

[TimV (Tim Vernum)]

@arcsons

I’ve never upgraded an Elastic Stack before, and it seems quite challenging!

It can be a bit of a challenge for large clusters or when you're going across many versions, but but for small deployments that keep up to date with upgrades it should be simple enough.

Plug: It's easier in Elastic Cloud Hosted where upgrades are typically just a matter of pressing a button, and it's even easier in Elastic Cloud Serverless when upgrades happen automatically in the background and you don't need to do anything.