- Elastic Cloud Enterprise - Elastic Cloud on your Infrastructure: other versions:
- What is Elastic Cloud Enterprise?
- Getting started
- Planning your installation
- Preparing your environment
- Installing Elastic Cloud Enterprise
- Configuring your installation
- Securing your installation
- Monitoring your installation
- Administering your installation
- Getting started with deployments
- Administering deployments
- Change your deployment configuration
- Stop routing requests or pause nodes
- Stop a deployment
- Restart a deployment
- Delete a deployment
- Work with snapshots
- Upgrade versions
- Editing your user settings
- Configure Beats and Logstash with Cloud ID
- Keep your clusters healthy
- Secure your clusters
- Manage your Kibana instance
- Manage your APM Server
- Enable Monitoring (formerly Marvel)
- Enable Graph (versions before 5.0)
- Connect to your cluster
- Enable cross cluster search
- Troubleshooting
- RESTful API
- Using the API
- API examples
- A first API call: What deployments are there?
- Create a first deployment: Just an Elasticsearch cluster
- Applying a new plan: Resize and add high availability
- Applying a new plan: Checking on progress
- Applying a new deployment configuration: Upgrade
- Enable more stack features: Add Kibana to a deployment
- Dipping a toe into platform automation: Generate a roles token
- Customize your deployment
- Remove unwanted deployment templates and instance configurations
- API reference
- Authentication
- Clusters - Apm - CRUD
- Clusters - Apm - CRUD - Configuration
- Clusters - Apm - Commands
- Search clusters
- Restart cluster
- Resynchronize cluster
- Shut down cluster
- Upgrade cluster
- Move instances (advanced)
- Start all instances
- Stop all instances
- Start maintenance mode all instances
- Stop maintenance mode all instances
- Move instances
- Start instances
- Stop instances
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - CRUD
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - CRUD - Configuration
- Get cross-cluster search clusters
- Get remote clusters for cross-cluster search
- Set remote clusters for cross-cluster search
- Get cluster curation settings
- Update cluster curation settings
- Set settings overrides (all instances)
- Set settings overrides
- Get settings from this cluster’s keystore
- Add or remove settings
- Set cluster name
- Get cluster metadata
- Set cluster metadata
- Get cluster metadata settings
- Update cluster metadata settings
- Cancel monitoring
- Set monitoring
- Get plan
- Update plan
- Migrate plan
- Get plan activity
- Cancel pending plan
- Get pending plan
- Set legacy security settings
- Get cluster snapshot settings
- Update cluster snapshot settings
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - Commands
- Search clusters
- Restart cluster
- Resynchronize cluster
- Shut down cluster
- Take snapshot
- Move instances (advanced)
- Start all instances
- Stop all instances
- Start maintenance mode all instances
- Stop maintenance mode all instances
- Move instances
- Start instances
- Stop instances
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - Proxy
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - Support
- Clusters - Kibana - CRUD
- Clusters - Kibana - CRUD - Configuration
- Clusters - Kibana - Commands
- Search clusters
- Restart cluster
- Resynchronize cluster
- Shut down cluster
- Upgrade cluster
- Move instances (advanced)
- Start all instances
- Stop all instances
- Start maintenance mode all instances
- Stop maintenance mode all instances
- Move instances
- Start instances
- Stop instances
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Deployments - IP Filtering - CRUD
- Deployments - Notes
- Platform
- Platform - Allocators
- Get allocators
- Search allocators
- Delete allocator
- Get allocator
- Resynchronize allocator
- Move clusters
- Move clusters by type
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Get allocator metadata
- Set allocator metadata
- Delete allocator metadata item
- Set allocator metadata item
- Get allocator settings
- Update allocator settings
- Set allocator settings
- Platform - Configuration - Instances - CRUD
- Platform - Configuration - Security
- Platform - Configuration - TLS
- Platform - Constructors
- Platform - License
- Platform - Repository - CRUD
- Platform - Runners
- Platform - proxies
- Stack - Instance Types - CRUD
- Stack - Versions - CRUD
- Templates - Deployments
- Users
- Definitions
AllocatedInstanceStatus
AllocatorCapacity
AllocatorCapacityMemory
AllocatorHealthStatus
AllocatorInfo
AllocatorMoveRequest
AllocatorOverview
AllocatorSettings
AllocatorZoneInfo
ApmConfiguration
ApmCrudResponse
ApmInfo
ApmPlan
ApmPlanControlConfiguration
ApmPlanInfo
ApmPlansInfo
ApmSubInfo
ApmSystemSettings
ApmTopologyElement
ApmsInfo
AvailableAuthenticationMethods
BasicFailedReply
BasicFailedReplyElement
BoolQuery
CapacityConstraintsResource
ChangeSourceInfo
ClusterCommandResponse
ClusterCredentials
ClusterCrudResponse
ClusterCurationSettings
ClusterCurationSpec
ClusterInstanceConfigurationInfo
ClusterInstanceDiskInfo
ClusterInstanceInfo
ClusterInstanceMemoryInfo
ClusterLicenseInfo
ClusterMetadataCpuResourcesSettings
ClusterMetadataInfo
ClusterMetadataPortInfo
ClusterMetadataResourcesSettings
ClusterMetadataSettings
ClusterPlanStepInfo
ClusterPlanStepLogMessageInfo
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryDefault
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryInfo
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryReference
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryStatic
ClusterSnapshotRequest
ClusterSnapshotResponse
ClusterSnapshotRetention
ClusterSnapshotSettings
ClusterSystemAlert
ClusterTopologyInfo
ClusterUpgradeInfo
CompatibleNodeTypesResource
CompatibleVersionResource
ConstructorHealthStatus
ConstructorInfo
ConstructorOverview
CreateApmInCreateElasticsearchRequest
CreateApmRequest
CreateElasticsearchClusterRequest
CreateKibanaInCreateElasticsearchRequest
CreateKibanaRequest
CrossClusterSearchClusters
CrossClusterSearchSettings
DeploymentTemplateInfo
DeploymentTemplateReference
DiscreteSizes
ElasticsearchClusterBlockingIssueElement
ElasticsearchClusterBlockingIssues
ElasticsearchClusterInfo
ElasticsearchClusterInstanceSettingsOverrides
ElasticsearchClusterPlan
ElasticsearchClusterPlanInfo
ElasticsearchClusterPlansInfo
ElasticsearchClusterRole
ElasticsearchClusterSecurityInfo
ElasticsearchClusterSettings
ElasticsearchClusterTopologyElement
ElasticsearchClusterUser
ElasticsearchClustersInfo
ElasticsearchConfiguration
ElasticsearchCuration
ElasticsearchInfo
ElasticsearchMasterElement
ElasticsearchMasterInfo
ElasticsearchMonitoringInfo
ElasticsearchNodeType
ElasticsearchPlanControlConfiguration
ElasticsearchReplicaElement
ElasticsearchScriptTypeSettings
ElasticsearchScriptingUserSettings
ElasticsearchShardElement
ElasticsearchShardsInfo
ElasticsearchSystemSettings
ElasticsearchUserBundle
ElasticsearchUserPlugin
ElevatePermissionsRequest
ElevatedPermissions
EmptyResponse
EnrollmentTokenRequest
ExistsQuery
ExternalHyperlink
FilterAssociation
GrowShrinkStrategyConfig
Hyperlink
IdResponse
InstanceConfiguration
InstanceMoveRequest
InstanceTypeResource
IpFilterRule
IpFilterRuleset
IpFilterRulesets
IpFilteringSettings
KeystoreContents
KeystoreSecret
KibanaClusterInfo
KibanaClusterPlan
KibanaClusterPlanInfo
KibanaClusterPlansInfo
KibanaClusterTopologyElement
KibanaClustersInfo
KibanaConfiguration
KibanaPlanControlConfiguration
KibanaSubClusterInfo
KibanaSystemSettings
LegacySecuritySettings
LicenseInfo
LicenseObject
ListEnrollmentTokenElement
ListEnrollmentTokenReply
LoginRequest
LoginState
ManagedMonitoringSettings
MatchAllQuery
MatchQuery
MetadataItem
MetadataItemValue
MetadataItems
MoveApmClusterConfiguration
MoveApmClusterDetails
MoveClustersCommandResponse
MoveClustersDetails
MoveClustersRequest
MoveElasticsearchClusterConfiguration
MoveElasticsearchClusterDetails
MoveKibanaClusterConfiguration
MoveKibanaClusterDetails
NestedQuery
NodeTypeResource
Note
Notes
PlanStrategy
PlatformInfo
PlatformServiceImageInfo
PlatformServiceInfo
PrefixQuery
ProxiesHttpSettings
ProxiesSSOSettings
ProxiesSettings
ProxyInfo
ProxyOverview
QueryContainer
QueryStringQuery
RangeQuery
RemoteClusterRef
RepositoryConfig
RepositoryConfigs
RequestEnrollmentTokenReply
RestoreSnapshotApiConfiguration
RestoreSnapshotConfiguration
RestoreSnapshotRepoConfiguration
RollingGrowShrinkStrategyConfig
RollingStrategyConfig
RuleSetResponse
RulesetAssociations
RunnerContainerInfo
RunnerInfo
RunnerOverview
RunnerRoleInfo
RunnerRolesInfo
SearchRequest
SnapshotRepositoryConfiguration
SnapshotStatusInfo
StackVersionApmConfig
StackVersionArchiveProcessingError
StackVersionArchiveProcessingResult
StackVersionConfig
StackVersionConfigPost
StackVersionConfigs
StackVersionElasticsearchConfig
StackVersionInstanceCapacityConstraint
StackVersionKibanaConfig
StackVersionMetadata
StackVersionNodeType
StackVersionTemplateFileHash
StackVersionTemplateInfo
TargetElasticsearchCluster
TermQuery
TiebreakerTopologyElement
TlsPublicCertChain
TokenResponse
TopologySize
TransientApmPlanConfiguration
TransientElasticsearchPlanConfiguration
TransientKibanaPlanConfiguration
User
UserSecurity
- Script reference
- Release notes
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.1.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.1.0
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.0.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.0.0
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.5
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.4
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.3
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.2
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.0
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.0.2
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.0.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.0.0
- Limitations and known problems
- About this product
It is time to say goodbye: This version of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has reached end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer supported.
The documentation for this version is no longer being maintained. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Upgrade to Elasticsearch 5.x
editUpgrade to Elasticsearch 5.x
editElasticsearch 5.x provides major new features and improved usability, but there are a few things you need to keep in mind when upgrading to our latest and greatest software in Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
Breaking changes in Elasticsearch 5.x
editA number of Elasticsearch queries were deprecated in version 2.0 or later and removed in version 5.x. Applications running deprecated queries might break after upgrading to 5.x.
Starting in Elasticsearch 2.3, a deprecation log became available that can help you determine if your applications are affected. Check this deprecation log before upgrading. If you are using deprecated queries, you will need to update your applications.
A number of other items were changed or removed in Elasticsearch 5.0 and later as well. For more information, see Breaking changes in 5.6.
Migrating Shield configurations
editIn Elasticsearch 5.0 and later, the security features required to keep your Elastic Cloud Enterprise clusters safe became part of X-Pack. With the move to X-Pack, the biggest changes to security features for the Elastic Stack include the names of the security configuration options, TLS/SSL configuration, and how roles are defined. A few privileges have also been removed.
When you upgrade an Elasticsearch cluster on Elastic Cloud Enterprise to version 5.x, the upgrade process to the new X-Pack security features is handled for you. As part of the upgrade process, all users, roles, and user-role mappings that exist in your Shield configuration are upgraded to use the new X-Pack security features. In addition, two users are always created on version 5.x clusters, the elastic
superuser and the anonymous
user.
If your cluster never had an active Shield configuration or if you are not provided the password during the upgrade process, you might need to reset the password for the elastic
user after upgrading to Elasticsearch 5.x. Users and applications will need to authenticate to be able to connect to your cluster.
After the upgrade is complete, you use the Kibana Management app for X-Pack to work with users and roles, which replaces the Shield Editor in previous releases:

To learn more about working with X-Pack security features in Elastic Cloud Enterprise, see Manage Users and Roles in X-Pack. For more background information about X-Pack for the Elastic Stack, see Securing Elasticsearch and Kibana.
Indices originally created in older versions of Elasticsearch
editIndices created in Elasticsearch before version 2.0 are not compatible with version 5.x, even if you upgraded your cluster to version 2.0 or later at some point. In order to upgrade to Elasticsearch 5.x with these indices, you must perform some additional steps.
If you upgrade to Elasticsearch 5.x with indices that are not supported, your Elasticsearch cluster will not start. Please make sure you follow the steps in this section first.
The following steps apply to you if your current cluster was originally created in a version of Elasticsearch before 2.0 or if you are not sure what version your cluster originally used:
-
Check if you can upgrade to Elasticsearch 5.x directly.
For all versions of Elasticsearch: You can find out what version of Elasticsearch an index was created with by querying the index settings and looking at the value of
settings.index.version.created
. The first number in the value indicates the major version of Elasticsearch and any value that is below 2000000 is not readable in Elasticsearch 5.x, even ifsettings.index.version.upgraded
shows a value that is greater than or equal to 2000000.For example:
- newdata: { aliases: { }, + mappings: {…}, - settings: { - index: { refresh_interval: "-1", number_of_shards: "5", - translog: { durability: "async" }, creation_date: "1460043613621", number_of_replicas: "1", uuid: "n6kYaMYGT0OJx8McwGAzPw", - version: { created: "2030099" upgraded: "5000002" } } }, warmers: { } },
Here is how you read the example:
-
If
created
indicates a value that is greater than or equal to 2000000, you can upgrade to Elastisearch 5.x directly. In this example, the index was created with version 2.3.0 (created: "2030099"
). You can skip the rest of the steps in this section and proceed to upgrade your cluster. -
If
created
indicates a value that is smaller than 2000000, you cannot upgrade to Elastisearch 5.x directly. Follow the remaining steps in this section first before upgrading to Elastisearch 5.x.Examples of
created
values that prevent you from upgrading to to Elastisearch 5.x directly:-
1070199
- Indicates an index created with Elasticsearch 1.7.1.
-
1060299
- Indicates an index created with Elasticsearch 1.6.2.
-
For Elasticsearch 2.0 and later: You can see a human-friendly value for the version that an index was created with by appending
?human=true
to your query URL.For example, for an Elasticsearch cluster
a1b2c3d4a1b2c3d4a1b2c3d4a1b2c3d4
with the index namedtest
, the URLhttps://a1b2c3d4a1b2c3d4a1b2c3d4a1b2c3d4.us-east-1.aws.found.io:9243/test?human=true
returns a human-friendly version with thecreated_string
(some output has been omitted for clarity):... created_string: "2.3.2", created: "2030299" ...
-
If
-
If you cannot upgrade to Elasticsearch 5.x directly, there are several options to get your cluster to version 5.x with minimal fuss:
- Use the migration plugin that is available for Elasticsearch 2.3.0 and later by upgrading to 2.3 first. This means that you migrate in a two-step process, first by upgrading from 1.x to 2.3 and then by upgrading from 2.3 to 5.x with the migration plugin. This process performs an online reindex.
-
Use the upgrade functionality in Elastic Cloud Enterprise built around the Upgrade API. This option performs a remote reindex of your indices and checks if the upgraded cluster will be able to start after upgrading.
There is additional overhead when you use this option. If your cluster is already running at capacity before the upgrade, Elastic recommends that you temporarily step up to the next available cluster size before upgrading, so that the reindex operation can complete in a reasonable amount of time. You can step down to the original cluster size after upgrading to avoid further costs.
- If neither of those options work for you, you can also upgrade your indices on a cluster running Elasticsearch 2.3.x yourself with the Reindex API. For more information, see Reindex to upgrade.
A Note on Snapshots
Snapshots cannot be restored in Elasticsearch 5.x, if they contain indices created in an Elasticsearch version before 2.0. To work around this restriction, you either need to discard these snapshots or you need to open them on a cluster running Elasticsearch 2.3 before reindexing and creating new snapshots.
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