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Upgrade Assistant

Elastic Stack ECE ECK Elastic Cloud Hosted Self Managed

The Upgrade Assistant helps you prepare to upgrade to the next version of the Elastic Stack. To access the assistant, go to Stack Management → Upgrade Assistant.

The assistant identifies deprecated settings in your configuration, and if any of those settings are enabled, it guides you through resolving issues that could prevent a successful upgrade. The Upgrade Assistant also helps resolve issues with older indices created before version 8.0.0, providing options to reindex older indices or mark them as read-only.

Required permissions

To access the Upgrade Assistant, you need the manage cluster privilege. You may also need additional privileges to perform specific actions.

Feature set

Some features of the Upgrade Assistant are only needed when upgrading to a new major version. The features enabled by default are those for the next version from the one Kibana currently runs on.

Deprecations

The Upgrade Assistant pulls information about deprecations from the following sources:

  • Elasticsearch deprecation info API
  • Elasticsearch deprecation logs
  • Kibana deprecations API

For more information about Upgrade Assistant APIs, refer to Upgrade Assistant APIs.