kibana/docs/management/upgrade-assistant.asciidoc
Christiane (Tina) Heiligers 049d8021eb
Updates upgrade assistant doclinks to point to current rather than hard-coded 7.17 (#147585)
Co-authored-by: Lisa Cawley <lcawley@elastic.co>
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
Fix https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/145092
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[[upgrade-assistant]]
== Upgrade Assistant
The Upgrade Assistant helps you prepare for your upgrade
to the next version of the {stack}.
To access the assistant, go to *{stack-manage-app} > Upgrade Assistant*.
The assistant identifies deprecated settings in your configuration
and guides you through the process of resolving issues if any deprecated features are enabled.
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=== Required permissions
The `manage` cluster privilege is required to access the *Upgrade assistant*.
Additional privileges may be needed to perform certain actions.
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=== Feature set
Some features of the Upgrade assistant are only needed when upgrading to a new major version. The feature set enabled by default are those for the very next version from the one Kibana currently runs on.
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=== Deprecations
The Upgrade assistant pulls information about deprecations from the following sources:
* Elasticsearch Deprecation Info API
* Elasticsearch deprecation logs
* Kibana deprecations API
For more information about the API's the Upgraed assistant provides, refer to <<upgrade-assistant-api, Upgrade Assistant APIs>>.