Upgrade the Elastic OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Helm chart release
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. Elastic Agent can run in OpenTelemetry mode to retrieve traces, metrics, and logs from your infrastructure and applications, and forward them to Elastic Observability. 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
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Stack
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Elastic Agent
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Before upgrading or updating the release configuration, refer to the compatibility matrix for a list of supported versions and customizing configuration for a list of supported configurable parameters.
To upgrade an installed release, run a helm upgrade command providing the desired chart version and using the correct values.yaml for your environment. For example:
helm repo update open-telemetry
helm search repo open-telemetry/opentelemetry-kube-stack --versions
helm upgrade --namespace opentelemetry-operator-system opentelemetry-kube-stack open-telemetry/opentelemetry-kube-stack \
--values 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/elastic-agent/refs/tags/v9.5.6/deploy/helm/edot-collector/kube-stack/values.yaml' \
--version 0.16.0
- update information of available charts locally
- list available versions of the chart
Elastic Agent can run in OpenTelemetry mode to retrieve traces, metrics, and logs from your infrastructure and applications, and forward them to Elastic Observability. Availability Generally available since 9.5 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. For OpenShift deployments, include the version-matched OpenShift values file after the base values file in every upgrade command.
If cert-manager integration is turned off, Helm generates a new self-signed TLS certificate with every update, even if there are no actual changes to apply.