Graylog/Elasticsearch upgrade path

Graylog Central (peer support)
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Hi,

We are running some quite old versions of Graylog (2.4.6) and Elasticsearch (5.6.14) and are now planning to upgrade.
What is the best path here ?
Can we go directly to the latest versions or is it best to go via older versions (i such case, which versions) ?

Any tips or pointers ?

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In graylog docs there are docs for the upgrade process, and points what you should check before the update (eg. depricated config settings, elastic commands, etc.
There were 2-3 big changes in graylog, so I suggest to

  • upgrade 2.5
  • upgrade to Elasticsearch 6.x
  • up 3.0
  • 3.1 OR 3.2 (check the 3.2, it is unfriendly for some users).

And as always before the update check the docs for it.
eg. http://docs.graylog.org/en/3.2/pages/upgrade/graylog-2.5.html

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I did our Dev env this week and the big issue was MongoDb.
Fortunately it was fixed by dumping and importing the database (Went from 2.4.10 to 4.0.17)
I still have Elasticsearch left and will upgrade to latest 6 next week

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