# How to update ElastiFlow?

**URL:** <https://forum.elastiflow.com/t/how-to-update-elastiflow/341>\
**Category:** ElastiFlow Community\
**Created:** [October 22, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.elastiflow.com/t/how-to-update-elastiflow/341 "2025-10-22T18:14:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![pmh](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.elastiflow.com/pmh/32/144_2.png) [@pmh](https://forum.elastiflow.com/u/pmh)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.elastiflow.com/t/how-to-update-elastiflow/341/1 "2025-10-22T18:14:27Z")

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Hi all,

I installed ElastiFlow with the documented [quickstart method](https://www.elastiflow.com/docs/flowcoll/install_docker_ubuntu_elastic_stack) on Ubuntu. Working great.

Now I was on EF 7.7.2 and according to the Changelog 7.18.1 is the current version.

How to update the entire stack?

I did - apparently at least partly successfully - edit `.env` and change:

```auto
ELASTIFLOW_FLOW_VERSION=7.7.2
ELASTIFLOW_SNMP_VERSION=7.7.2

```

to

```auto
ELASTIFLOW_FLOW_VERSION=7.18.1
ELASTIFLOW_SNMP_VERSION=7.18.1

```

then redeployed. `docker ps` shows the new version for the flow collector and the application and all dashboards are working.

I figure that this:

```auto
# Version of Elasticsearch. Note: 8.16.4 is the last version to support TSDS for free.
ELASTIC_VERSION=8.16.4

```

means to leave that entry alone. Similar for `KIBANA_VERSION`, probably.

But what do I make of this?

```auto
FLOW_DASHBOARDS_VERSION=8.14.x
SNMP_DASHBOARDS_VERSION=8.2.x
SNMP_TRAPS_DASHBOARDS_VERSION=8.14.x

```

I could not find an “Updating ElastiFlow” document in the fundamentally pretty good docs.

Advice or pointers to a fine manual I might have missed much appreciated.

Thanks!  
Patrick

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**Author:** ![daniel.harada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@daniel.harada](https://forum.elastiflow.com/u/daniel.harada)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.elastiflow.com/t/how-to-update-elastiflow/341/2 "2025-10-22T18:37:59Z")

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The “quick start” installation is no longer maintained and will soon be removed from the documentation, but to answer your question, the dashboard versions have not changed so you do not need to update those. Here’s [a link to the documentation for the dashboards](https://www.elastiflow.com/docs/data_platforms/elastic/kibana) and you can see the versions are 8.14.x, etc.

Regards,

Dexter Turner

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.elastiflow.com/system/32/59_2.png) [@system](https://forum.elastiflow.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.elastiflow.com/t/how-to-update-elastiflow/341/3 "2025-11-21T18:38:10Z")

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