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[[upgrade-standard-reindex]]
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=== Standard Upgrade with Reindex
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You must perform a reindex in Elasticsearch whenever you're upgrading Kibana
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that has an existing `.kibana` index created prior to Elasticsearch 2.0.
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This is the case if you're upgrading directly from Kibana 4.1 or 4.0 as well as
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when your existing install of Kibana 4.2+ was previously upgraded from 4.1 or
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4.0.
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Reindexing is the process of creating a new index with updated syntax and
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mappings directly from an existing index. While it is possible to do this
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manually, we recommend using the Elasticsearch Migration Plugin as described
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in the Elasticsearch
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{ref}/reindex-upgrade.html#reindex-upgrade[Reindex to upgrade] guide.
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NOTE: The Elasticsearch Migration Plugin creates a versioned `.kibana` index
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as well as an {ref}/indices-aliases.html[index alias] that points to it.
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Kibana 5.0 supports this index alias, but if you want to run Kibana 4.x while
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this Elastic stack upgrade is underway, you'll need to configure your Kibana
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4.x install to point to the versioned index using the `kibana.index`
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configuration in your `kibana.yml` file.
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Once your reindex is complete, you can follow the
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<<upgrade-standard, Standard Upgrade>> instructions.
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