Upgrading to Kibana 4.2

Elastic Stack Kibana
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What is the easiest way to upgrade to Kibana 4.2? Do I have to download the .tar file and reinstall Kibana completely?

Thanks,

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Just replace the previous Kibana files and make sure you save your current configuration file. The easiest is probably to unpack the tarball in a new directory, copy the configuration file, delete the old Kibana directory and rename the new one to the old name.

That said, I haven't read the release notes myself. To avoid surprises make sure you've read it before upgrading.

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You'll need ES 2.0 for this as well!

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thanks

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And when you go to ES 2.0, you'll need to upgrade to Logstash 2.0 as well or you won't be able to create new indexes.

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Not correct, LS 1.5 will work with ES 2.0.