- Introducing Elasticsearch Service
- Adding data to Elasticsearch
- Migrating data
- Ingesting data from your application
- Ingest data with Node.js on Elasticsearch Service
- Ingest data with Python on Elasticsearch Service
- Ingest data from Beats to Elasticsearch Service with Logstash as a proxy
- Ingest data from a relational database into Elasticsearch Service
- Ingest logs from a Python application using Filebeat
- Ingest logs from a Node.js web application using Filebeat
- Configure Beats and Logstash with Cloud ID
- Best practices for managing your data
- Configure index management
- Enable cross-cluster search and cross-cluster replication
- Access other deployments of the same Elasticsearch Service organization
- Access deployments of another Elasticsearch Service organization
- Access deployments of an Elastic Cloud Enterprise environment
- Access clusters of a self-managed environment
- Enabling CCS/R between Elasticsearch Service and ECK
- Edit or remove a trusted environment
- Migrate the cross-cluster search deployment template
- Manage data from the command line
- Preparing a deployment for production
- Securing your deployment
- Monitoring your deployment
- Monitor with AutoOps
- Configure Stack monitoring alerts
- Access performance metrics
- Keep track of deployment activity
- Diagnose and resolve issues
- Diagnose unavailable nodes
- Why are my shards unavailable?
- Why is performance degrading over time?
- Is my cluster really highly available?
- How does high memory pressure affect performance?
- Why are my cluster response times suddenly so much worse?
- How do I resolve deployment health warnings?
- How do I resolve node bootlooping?
- Why did my node move to a different host?
- Snapshot and restore
- Managing your organization
- Your account and billing
- Billing Dimensions
- Billing models
- Using Elastic Consumption Units for billing
- Edit user account settings
- Monitor and analyze your account usage
- Check your subscription overview
- Add your billing details
- Choose a subscription level
- Check your billing history
- Update billing and operational contacts
- Stop charges for a deployment
- Billing FAQ
- Elasticsearch Service hardware
- Elasticsearch Service GCP instance configurations
- Elasticsearch Service GCP default provider instance configurations
- Elasticsearch Service AWS instance configurations
- Elasticsearch Service AWS default provider instance configurations
- Elasticsearch Service Azure instance configurations
- Elasticsearch Service Azure default provider instance configurations
- Change hardware for a specific resource
- Elasticsearch Service regions
- About Elasticsearch Service
- RESTful API
- Release notes
- Enhancements and bug fixes - December 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - November 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - Late October 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - Early October 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - September 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - Late August 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - Early August 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - July 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - Late June 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - Early June 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - Early May 2024
- Bring your own key, and more
- AWS region EU Central 2 (Zurich) now available
- GCP region Middle East West 1 (Tel Aviv) now available
- Enhancements and bug fixes - March 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes - January 2024
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- AWS region EU North 1 (Stockholm) now available
- GCP regions Asia Southeast 2 (Indonesia) and Europe West 9 (Paris)
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Role-based access control, and more
- Newly released deployment templates for Integrations Server, Master, and Coordinating
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Cross environment search and replication, and more
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Azure region Canada Central (Toronto) now available
- Azure region Brazil South (São Paulo) now available
- Azure region South Africa North (Johannesburg) now available
- Azure region Central India (Pune) now available
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Azure new virtual machine types available
- Billing Costs Analysis API, and more
- Organization and billing API updates, and more
- Integrations Server, and more
- Trust across organizations, and more
- Organizations, and more
- Elastic Consumption Units, and more
- AWS region Africa (Cape Town) available
- AWS region Europe (Milan) available
- AWS region Middle East (Bahrain) available
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- GCP Private Link, and more
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- GCP region Asia Northeast 3 (Seoul) available
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Native Azure integration, and more
- Frozen data tier and more
- Enhancements and bug fixes
- Azure region Southcentral US (Texas) available
- Azure region East US (Virginia) available
- Custom endpoint aliases, and more
- Autoscaling, and more
- Cross-region and cross-provider support, warm and cold data tiers, and more
- Better feature usage tracking, new cost and usage analysis page, and more
- New features, enhancements, and bug fixes
- AWS region Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
- Enterprise subscription self service, log in with Microsoft, bug fixes, and more
- SSO for Enterprise Search, support for more settings
- Azure region Australia East (New South Wales)
- New logging features, better GCP marketplace self service
- Azure region US Central (Iowa)
- AWS region Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
- Elastic solutions and Microsoft Azure Marketplace integration
- AWS region Pacific (Seoul)
- AWS region EU West 3 (Paris)
- Traffic management and improved network security
- AWS region Canada (Central)
- Enterprise Search
- New security setting, in-place configuration changes, new hardware support, and signup with Google
- Azure region France Central (Paris)
- Regions AWS US East 2 (Ohio) and Azure North Europe (Ireland)
- Our Elasticsearch Service API is generally available
- GCP regions Asia East 1 (Taiwan), Europe North 1 (Finland), and Europe West 4 (Netherlands)
- Azure region UK South (London)
- GCP region US East 1 (South Carolina)
- GCP regions Asia Southeast 1 (Singapore) and South America East 1 (Sao Paulo)
- Snapshot lifecycle management, index lifecycle management migration, and more
- Azure region Japan East (Tokyo)
- App Search
- GCP region Asia Pacific South 1 (Mumbai)
- GCP region North America Northeast 1 (Montreal)
- New Elastic Cloud home page and other improvements
- Azure regions US West 2 (Washington) and Southeast Asia (Singapore)
- GCP regions US East 4 (N. Virginia) and Europe West 2 (London)
- Better plugin and bundle support, improved pricing calculator, bug fixes, and more
- GCP region Asia Pacific Southeast 1 (Sydney)
- Elasticsearch Service on Microsoft Azure
- Cross-cluster search, OIDC and Kerberos authentication
- AWS region EU (London)
- GCP region Asia Pacific Northeast 1 (Tokyo)
- Usability improvements and Kibana bug fix
- GCS support and private subscription
- Elastic Stack 6.8 and 7.1
- ILM and hot-warm architecture
- Elasticsearch keystore and more
- Trial capacity and more
- APM Servers and more
- Snapshot retention period and more
- Improvements and snapshot intervals
- SAML and multi-factor authentication
- Next generation of Elasticsearch Service
- Branding update
- Minor Console updates
- New Cloud Console and bug fixes
- What’s new with the Elastic Stack
Upgrade to Elasticsearch 6.x
editUpgrade to Elasticsearch 6.x
editVersion 6.8 of Elasticsearch has passed its EOL date. This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade your deployment to a more current version of the Elastic stack.
If you have an existing cluster and want to upgrade to version 6.x, there are a few things you need to keep in mind. Preparing for your upgrade ahead of time ensures that you can enjoy the major new features and improved usability of Elasticsearch 6.x as quickly as possible.
Before you begin
editUpgrading on Elasticsearch Service differs from upgrading your on-premise installation in that all major configuration changes to upgrade Elasticsearch, Kibana, and X-Pack are handled for you. Your responsibility when preparing to upgrade to version 6.x is to make sure that your indices are ready for version 6.x by reindexing, if necessary, and that you are aware of breaking changes that could affect you.
The upgrade process to Elasticsearch 6.x is a two-step process that uses version 5.6 as an intermediate upgrade step. To upgrade to version 6.x, you must: . Upgrade from Elasticsearch version 5.x to version 5.6. . Upgrade from Elasticsearch version 5.6 to version 6.x.
When upgrading to version 6.x, Elasticsearch Service automatically runs the deprecation API to retrieve information about different cluster, node, and index level settings that are removed or changed. If there are any deprecation issues that would prevent the upgraded cluster from performing correctly, Elasticsearch Service does not perform the upgrade and instead asks you to resolve the issues through the Upgrade Assistant in Kibana first. If your cluster does not include a Kibana instance yet, you can enable Kibana first and then use the Upgrade Assistant. After resolving the issues flagged by the deprecation API, you should be able to perform the upgrade successfully.
Steps you might need to perform before upgrading:
- Enable inline scripting. At least the default Enable sandboxed inline scripts option must be set on the Configuration page for your cluster or the upgrade to version 6.x cannot proceed.
- Reindex indices created in older versions of Elasticsearch to ensure compatibility with version 6.x.
- Review breaking changes in Elasticsearch 6.x before upgrading.
- Check the known issues on Elasticsearch Service.
In version 6.x, TLS between Elasticsearch cluster nodes is always enabled on Elasticsearch Service. To enable internal TLS between cluster nodes, Elasticsearch cluster must perform a full cluster restart on Elasticsearch Service, even if you are upgrading from version 5.6.
Additional background information about upgrading the Elastic Stack is available, but keep in mind that most steps are handled for you, unless they are specifically called out in the Elasticsearch Service documentation that you are currently reading:
Snapshot behavior during upgrades
editTo ensure an upgrade process that always keeps your data safe, Elasticsearch Service takes a snapshot before making any changes to your cluster. After a major version upgrade is complete and the first successful snapshot with the new major version is available, the snapshot taken with previous version of Elasticsearch is listed under snapshots.
For example, before upgrading from Elasticsearch version 5.6 to version 6.x, a snapshot is taken. After the upgrade to version 6.x is complete and a first snapshot with the new version is available, snapshots taken with version 5.6 is listed under snapshots.
Review breaking changes in Elasticsearch 6.x
editElastic is always working on making upgrades across major versions easier, but major version upgrades often include so many changes that upgrading can carry some risk. A breaking change is the result of a functional change between major Elasticsearch versions that requires you to perform some additional step or steps in order to ensure that you can use the new version as intended. To learn more, check Breaking changes in 6.8.
Reindex indices created in older versions of Elasticsearch
editElasticsearch 6.x can read indices created in version 5.0 or above. An Elasticsearch 6.x node will not start if indices created in a version of Elasticsearch before 5.0 are present. If prompted by Elasticsearch Service, use the Upgrade Assistant in Kibana to reindex your data.
Known issues with 6.8.23 on Elasticsearch Service
editThe following known problems apply to the Elastic Stack 6.8.23 release:
- The Transport Client is not supported in 6.8.23. While we work on adding support, you can continue to use the Java REST client as a workaround.
Upgrade to Elastic Stack 6.8
editTo deploy 6.8, excluding Elastic Stack 6.8.23 and earlier releases:
- Log in to the Elasticsearch Service Console.
- Upgrade from Elasticsearch version 2.x or version 5.x to version 5.6.
- Upgrade from version 5.6 to version 6.x.
- Test Elasticsearch and Kibana 6.x!
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