Upgrade to version 9.0
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 guide explains the upgrade process for version 9.0. For a detailed look at what’s new, check out:
- All index management has been removed from APM Server; the built-in Elasticsearch apm-data plugin is entirely responsible for setting up index templates, index lifecycle polices, and index pipelines.
- APM Server now only writes to well-defined data streams; writing to classic indices is no longer supported.
- APM Server has a new Elasticsearch output implementation with defaults that should be sufficient for most use cases.
As a result of the above changes, a number of index management and index tuning configuration variables have been removed. See the APM release notes, breaking changes for full details.
Starting in version 7.14, there are two ways to run Elastic APM. Determine which method you’re using, then use the links below to find the correct upgrading guide.
- Standalone: Users in this mode run and configure the APM Server binary.
- Fleet and the APM integration: Users in this mode run and configure Fleet and the Elastic APM integration.
Self-installation (non-Elastic Cloud users) upgrade guides
Elastic Cloud upgrade guides