# Upgrading system indices to version 8 **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [November 16, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrading-system-indices-to-version-8/347364 "2023-11-16T20:21:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bermanb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@bermanb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bermanb)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrading-system-indices-to-version-8/347364/1 "2023-11-16T20:21:46Z")
We recently updated Elasticsearch and Kibana from 7.17 to 8.10.2, and noticed that we can't find how to upgrade the system indices from 7 to 8 (like in the 7 to 8 upgrade assistant where we were able to upgrade our indices from 6 to 7). Are we overlooking something in the UI? Is a feature planned? Is there a [straightforward] way of doing this? (How?) Is there even a good reason for doing this? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrading-system-indices-to-version-8/347364/2 "2023-11-22T22:07:23Z")
Hello, Did you use the upgrade assistant to upgrade your stack? And do you see .kibana\_7 in your system indices under index managment? Thanks, Bhavya ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrading-system-indices-to-version-8/347364/3 "2023-12-20T22:07:43Z")
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