- Fleet and Elastic Agent Guide: other versions:
- Fleet and Elastic Agent overview
- Beats and Elastic Agent capabilities
- Quick starts
- Migrate from Beats to Elastic Agent
- Set up Fleet Server
- Install Elastic Agents
- Install Fleet-managed Elastic Agents
- Install standalone Elastic Agents (advanced users)
- Install Elastic Agents in a containerized environment
- Installation layout
- Air-gapped environments
- Use a proxy server with Elastic Agent and Fleet
- Uninstall Elastic Agents from edge hosts
- Start and stop Elastic Agents on edge hosts
- Elastic Agent configuration encryption
- Secure connections
- Manage Elastic Agents in Fleet
- Manage integrations
- Configure standalone Elastic Agents
- Define processors
- Processor syntax
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_cef
- decode_csv_fields
- decode_duration
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- move_fields
- parse_aws_vpc_flow_log
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- replace
- script
- syslog
- timestamp
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Command reference
- Troubleshoot
- Release notes
Upgrade standalone Elastic Agents
editUpgrade standalone Elastic Agents
editRunning Elastic Agent in standalone mode is an advanced use case. The documentation is incomplete and not yet mature. When possible, we recommend using Fleet-managed agents instead of standalone mode.
To upgrade a standalone agent running on an edge node:
-
Make sure the
elastic-agent
service is running. -
From the directory where Elastic Agent is installed, run the
upgrade
command to upgrade to a new version. Not sure where the agent is installed? Refer to Installation layout.For example, on macOS, to upgrade the agent from version 7.10.0 to 7.10.1, you would run:
cd /Library/Elastic/Agent/ sudo elastic-agent upgrade 7.10.1
This command upgrades the binary. Your agent policy should continue to work, but you might need to upgrade it to use new features and capabilities.
For more command-line options, see the help for the
upgrade
command.