Updating Elastic Search on Linux

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1. Go to Elastic Search website to get the newest version

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/deb.html

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/deb.html

2. Check the repository definition inside the article:

3. Go to /etc/apt/sources.list.d (command cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d) and check the repository definition of Elastic You have by running ls

Delete the present file by running “rm {file name}” (example: rm elastic-8.x.list).

4. After Your file is removed, run ls again to check if it is gone. The output should look like this:

5. After that, run this command from the from the article:

echo "deb <a href="https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/8.x/apt">https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/8.x/apt</a> stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-8.x.list

Make sure You have the whole line copied

6. After that, run ls again and check for the definition

7. After that is done, stop the Kibana service, and then stop the Elastic Search service with these commands:

sudo systemctl stop kibana.service

sudo systemctl stop elasticsearch.service

ALWAYS stop kibana first as to avoid creating unnecessary conflicts.

8. Run sudo apt-get update to load in the updated repository

9. After that, run sudo apt upgrade elasticsearch to update Elastic Search

Say “y” to continuing

10. Do the same with Kibana by running sudo apt upgrade kibana

Say “y” to continuing

11. A prompt might pop up asking about a configuration file

Say “n” to that.

12. After that, You can start Your services again

13. Go to the address of Your elasticsearch

Press advanced

And continue to the address

After You login, check the displayed information to confirm that You have the up-to-date stable version of elastic installed

You will see your current Elastic Search version here

15. Go to Your Kibana address.

And press this icon on the top right corner to check the version

You will see the current Kibana version here

16. After that, stop Kibana by running sudo systemctl stop kibana.service

17. If both of the versions are matching, your update of Elastic Search is done!