4.1 Upgrade Using Yum

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I’m trying to upgrade Graylog to the latest stable release v4.1.5. I’m using:
sudo yum update graylog-server
…but it doesn’t seem to want to jump me up to 4.1.x. It thinks I’m on the latest version:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:18:49 ago on Tue 05 Apr 2022 07:44:38 PM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

How can I get this installation to jump from v4.x to v4.1?

Thanks.

Operating system information

CentOS Stream release 8

Package versions

  • Graylog 4.0.15
  • MongoDB 4.2.14
  • Elasticsearch 7.10.2

Thank you.

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Hello @danmassa7
I’ll try to make this easy for ya :+1:

First of all The latest package is Graylog-4.2.7, If this is what you want then the following will work for ya.

NOTE: Make sure you have backups of your configuration file.

So, what I’ll try to do is sum it up on how to upgrade Graylog.
Here are the steps I execute in order.

1.Before Upgrading make sure your system is fully updated, try not to use the Y flag incase you see a package updating that may affect you system (i.e. Elasticsearch, MongoDb, etc…)

NOTE: Check to insure Elasticsearch/MongoDb packages Do Not exceed the requirements

yum update

2.Stop graylog service before you upgrade.

systemctl stop graylog-server

3.Install new Graylog 4.2 package.

rpm -Uvh https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/packages/graylog-4.2-repository_latest.rpm

4.Make sure your repository cache is clean from Old version of Graylog.

yum clean all

5.Perform Graylog upgrade

yum upgrade graylog-server

6.If upgrade command doesn’t work you can use the following also.

yum install graylog-server

NOTE: At this point make SURE you have the correct Graylog Configuration file (server.conf) , some settings have changed in the newer versions. To insure you have the correct server.conf there should be a file called server.conf.rpmnew in the Graylog directory ( /etc/graylog/).

7.This may not pertain to you but I though I would Highlight it incase. Check the permission on Graylog directories.

ls -al /etc/graylog

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8.Once everything is done I started Graylog service

systemctl start graylog-server

9.Now TAIL Graylog file and look for errors, warnings, etc… Sometimes the error’s are not at the end of the log file.

tail -f /var/log/graylog-server/server.log

10.Last step :smiley:
Make sure you refresh you browser and you should be done.

HowTo Upgrade Graylog to a Major Version

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Thanks. Couple of questions:

  1. The Overview page on Graylog says v4.1.5 is the current stable version. I like stability. :slight_smile:
    What should I adjust in your instructions to upgrade to v4.1.5?
  2. What is the “Y” flag? How do I not use it?
  3. What is the URL that describes compatible versions of MongoDB and ElasticSearch for Graylog v4.1.5? Probably there are release notes somewhere that describe these requirements?

Thanks.

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Hello,

What I did was place links to Graylog documentation, this way the answers to your question/s will
have a clearer explanation.

You may need to look at this documentation

This would help here.

Define the use of the Y flag.

  • With -y option, yum will install specified package along with its dependent package without asking for confirmation.
  • Without -y option, yum will show information related to specified package and its dependent packages and will ask for confirmation to install.

This documentation is a good explanation

Hope that helps

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I forgot to add this link for repos,

Hope that helps

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