# Upgrade to 9.x **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 31, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-9-x/383126 "2025-10-31T11:15:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zen.xen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e495f1/32.png) [@zen.xen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zen.xen)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-9-x/383126/1 "2025-10-31T11:15:48Z")
Hello, I use ELK 8.8, 3-node cluster, I would like to upgrade to the newest version, is there an easy way to upgrade it? Perhaps there are 2 ways to upgrade but I don’t know which one will be better: a. build new cluster and transfer data, b. CCR - cross-cluster replication Could you help me with that? ---
**Author:** ![RainTown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raintown/32/140206_2.png) [@RainTown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RainTown)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-9-x/383126/2 "2025-10-31T13:15:30Z")
There are (at least) 3 ways, just upgrade in place, which I believe is more common than new deployments or the CCR you mention. Note to get to 9.x you need to upgrade via 8.19.x first, see [here](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/upgrade/prepare-to-upgrade) You also need to check out the Upgrade Assistant in kibana, if you dont have a kibana instance please start one. How and on what is your cluster installed? e.g. 3 VMs each running RHEL, 3 physical machines in my data centre running Windows, its part of a docker or k8s or … btw, you’ve posted several times before, and welcome back!, including one thread where you had 8.7 on a 2-node cluster that you grew to 3 nodes for “HA”. If this is same cluster, you must have upgraded 8.7 –\> 8.8? 8.8 –\> 8.19.x is not intrinsically any different. 8.19.x –\> 9.x is not either, IMO. In all cases it’s really just “follow the steps in documentation”. ---
**Author:** ![zen.xen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e495f1/32.png) [@zen.xen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zen.xen)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-9-x/383126/3 "2025-10-31T13:48:42Z")
Probably upgrade in place should be the best way. It is not the same cluster, it is other one, maybe I will be more precise, I use bitnami ELK stack and I’d like to upgrade it and I don’t know how to do it. I try to find any info but … it is not easy. ---
**Author:** ![RainTown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raintown/32/140206_2.png) [@RainTown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RainTown)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-9-x/383126/4 "2025-10-31T13:57:15Z")
> [@zen.xen](#): > > I use bitnami ELK stack That sort of implies the answer, follow the Bitmani documentation? e.g. [here](https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/elk/administration/upgrade/) , noting this documentation has a pretty recent update date? But this forum possibly isn’t best place to ask for 3rd party packaging of Elastic products. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![zen.xen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e495f1/32.png) [@zen.xen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zen.xen)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-9-x/383126/5 "2025-10-31T14:10:01Z")
thanks for link, maybe it will help me, if not CCR could be a good solution? ---
**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-9-x/383126/6 "2025-10-31T14:20:45Z")
> [@zen.xen](#): > > thanks for link, maybe it will help me, if not CCR could be a good solution? Cross Cluster replication is a paid feature, you need a paid license for both clusters. ---
**Author:** ![zen.xen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e495f1/32.png) [@zen.xen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zen.xen)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-9-x/383126/7 "2025-10-31T14:21:33Z")
ok, thanks