Upgrade the Elastic Stack on a self-managed cluster
If you've installed the Elastic Stack on your own self-managed infrastructure, once you'reprepared to upgrade, you'll need to upgrade each of your Elastic components individually.
It's important that you upgrade your components in this order:
Important
If you're using Logstash and thelogstash-filter-elastic_integrationplugin to extend Elastic integrations, upgrade Logstash (or thelogstash-filter-elastic_integration plugin specifically)before you upgrade Kibana.
The Elasticsearch → Logstash → Kibana installation order for this specific plugin ensures the best experience with Elastic Agent-managed pipelines, and embeds functionality from a version of Elasticsearch Ingest Node that is compatible with the plugin version (major.minor).