Upgrade Elastic Cloud with the APM integration to 8.0
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 Elastic APM integration. Only use this guide if both of the following are true:
- You’re using Elastic Cloud.
- You have already switched to and are running Fleet and 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 your Elastic Cloud instance to 9.0. Refer to Upgrade your deployment for details. As a part of this process, the APM integration will automatically upgrade to version 9.0.
Elastic Cloud Enterprise users require additional TLS setup. Refer to Add APM user settings for more information.