Upgrade Elastic Cloud APM Server standalone to 8.
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.
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This upgrade guide is for the standalone method of running APM Server. Only use this guide if both of the following are true:
- You’re using Elastic Cloud.
- You’re using the APM Server binary, i.e. you haven’t switched to the Elastic APM integration.
Follow these steps to upgrade:
- Review the Elastic APM release notes and Elastic Observability release notes.
- Review the Elastic APM breaking changes.
- Upgrade Elastic Cloud to 9.0, refer to Upgrade your deployment for instructions.
- (Optional) Upgrade to the APM integration. Got time for one more upgrade? Refer to Switch to the Elastic APM integration.