Upgrading
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. The Elastic APM Node.js agent enables you to trace the execution of operations in your Node.js applications, sending performance metrics and errors to the Elastic APM Server. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.
Serverless Observability
Generally available
Stack
Generally available
APM Agent Node.js
Generally available
The Elastic APM Node.js Agent uses semantic versioning, and therefore upgrades between minor versions of the agent, for example from 1.1 to 1.2, are always backwards compatible. Upgrades that involve a major version bump often come with some backwards incompatible changes.
Before upgrading the agent, be sure to review the:
The following upgrade guides are available:
- Upgrade to v4.x from version 3.x of the Elastic APM Node.js agent.
- Upgrade to v3.x from version 2.x of the Elastic APM Node.js agent.
- Upgrade to v2.x from version 1.x of the Elastic APM Node.js agent.
- Upgrade to v1.x from version 0.x of the Elastic APM Node.js agent.
We love all our products, but sometimes we must say goodbye to a release so that we can continue moving forward on future development and innovation. Our End of life policy defines how long a given release is considered supported, as well as how long a release is considered still in active development or maintenance.