Updating Humio in a Cluster

This guide will take you through the steps required to update your Humio cluster to a newer version.

You should always check the Release Notes for the all versions between the version of Humio you are currently running and the version you are installing.

Data Migrations

Some versions are marked with Data Migrations indicating that Humio's internal database will be migrated to a new schema. This is usually one way and that implies you cannot easily downgrade if you have issues with the new version.

Warning

If a version is marked as having data migrations, you will need to update all nodes at the same time, else you might corrupt the cluster's metadata. This means taking all nodes offline while updating. Hopefully all clients are configured with data retransmission, using FileBeat or something similar, so you should not see any data loss.

Updating a Node

Updating Humio is a matter of stopping the old running version and starting the new version, on top of the same data directories, and with the same configuration, in most cases. Some releases have instructions in their release notes on required steps to update, but most releases should run on top of the previous one.

We recommend that you make a backup copy of the file $DATA_DIR/humio-data/global-data-snapshot.json before you update — preferably after shutting down the old version but before starting the new one. This file can be used to roll back to the previous version if necessary.

Running in Docker

When using Docker images to run Humio, update by pulling the latest version of the Docker image and running it using the same Docker arguments as previously.

All Humio images are tagged with a version:

  • latest — the latest stable version of Humio

  • stable — the latest stable version of Humio

  • preview — the latest preview version of Humio

In the example below, latest is used as version to update the single image Docker version, where everything is inside a single Docker container.

logscale
docker stop humio || true
docker rm humio || true
docker pull humio/humio:latest
docker run \
 -v $YOUR_LOGSCALE_URL_DATA_DIR:/data \
 --net=host \
 --detach \
 --restart=always \
 --name=humio \
 --stop-timeout 300 \
 --env-file=$PATH_TO_CONFIG_FILE humio/humio

Running from Java jar

When running the Humio jar outside Docker, download the latest version and restart the Java process on the new jar file.

Running in Kubernetes

If running the Humio Operator, see the Upgrading Humio Operator on Kubernetes documentation.

If running the Humio Helm Chart, see the Upgrading with Kubernetes section of the Helm Chart documentation page.

Warning

This is generally not recommended for version updates but is convenient for configuration changes.

  • Update the values.yaml with the new configuration

  • Update the statefulset/pods with the new configuration by running

    logscale
    helm upgrade --values values.yaml humio humio/humio-helm-charts