- Observability: other versions:
- Get started
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.17
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with OpenTelemetry
- Quickstart: Unified Kubernetes Observability with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT)
- Quickstart: Collect data with AWS Firehose
- Add data from Splunk
- Applications and services
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Get started
- Learn about data types
- Collect application data
- View and analyze data
- Act on data
- Use APM securely
- Manage storage
- Configure APM Server
- Monitor APM Server
- APM APIs
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- Known issues
- Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
- Configure projects
- Multi-factor Authentication
- Configure Synthetics settings
- Grant users access to secured resources
- Manage data retention
- Use Synthetics with traffic filters
- Migrate from the Elastic Synthetics integration
- Scale and architect a deployment
- Synthetics support matrix
- Synthetics Encryption and Security
- Troubleshooting
- Real user monitoring
- Uptime monitoring (deprecated)
- Tutorial: Monitor a Java application
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Infrastructure and hosts
- Logs
- Troubleshooting
- Incident management
- Data set quality
- Observability AI Assistant
- Reference
Upgrade to version 8.17.3
editUpgrade to version 8.17.3
editThis guide explains the upgrade process for version 8.17.3. For a detailed look at what’s new, see:
Notable APM changes
edit- 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.
Find your upgrade guide
editStarting 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
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