Bulk upgrade agents

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

POST /api/fleet/agents/bulk_upgrade

Auth

Upgrade multiple agents to a newer version, with optional rollout controls.

Required privileges

Privileges fleet-agents-all

Header parameters

kbn-xsrf string required: A required header to protect against CSRF attacks

Request body

agents union string[] | string required
batchSize number
dryRun boolean
force boolean
includeInactive boolean · default: false
rollout_duration_seconds number · min: 600
skipRateLimitCheck boolean
source_uri string
start_time string
version string required

Responses

Successful response

application/json

Any of:

actionId string required

Bad Request

application/json

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Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

Examples

Request Console 1 / 2 languages

Upgrade multiple agents to a specific version

Console Kibana Dev Tools

POST kbn:/api/fleet/agents/bulk_upgrade
{
  "agents": [
    "agent-id-1",
    "agent-id-2"
  ],
  "rollout_duration_seconds": 3600,
  "version": "8.17.0"
}

Generated from the API spec

curl Shell

curl -X POST "${KIBANA_URL}/api/fleet/agents/bulk_upgrade" \
  -H "kbn-xsrf: true" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "agents": [
      "agent-id-1",
      "agent-id-2"
    ],
    "rollout_duration_seconds": 3600,
    "version": "8.17.0"
  }'

Generated from the API spec

Response

Bulk upgrade action result

{
  "actionId": "action-id-1"
}

{
  "error": "Bad Request",
  "message": "An error message describing what went wrong",
  "statusCode": 400
}

Required privileges

Header parameters

Request body { }

Responses

Request body