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Migration from Elasticsearch 6.8.2 to ES 7.x#


⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTE

  • This migration process is intended for single node of Elasticsearch database
  • The current version of this document is provided for testing purpose ONLY!
  • This guide has been written and tested to migrate data from ES 6.8.2 to ES 7.8.1, and TheHive 3.4.2 to TheHive 3.5.0-RC1 only!
  • This guide starts with Elasticsearch version 6.8.2 up and running, indexes and data. To test this guide, we recommend using a backup of you production server. (see Backup and Restore page for more information)
  • This guide is illustrated with TheHive index. The process is identical for Cortex, you just have to adjust index names.

Prerequisite#

The software jq is required to manipulate JSON and create new indexes. More information at https://stedolan.github.io/jq/.

Identify if your index should be reindexed#

You can easily identify if indexes should be reindexed or not. On the index named the_hive_15 run the following command:

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:9200/the_hive_15?human | jq '.the_hive_15.settings.index.version.created'

if the output is similar to "5xxxxxx" then reindexing is required, you should follow this guide.

If it is "6xxxxxx" then the index can be read by Elasticsearch 7.8.x. Upgrade Elasticsearch, and TheHive-3.5.0.

Migration guide#

Current status#

Current context is: - Elasticsearch 6.8.2 - TheHive 3.4.2

All up and running.

Start by identifying indices on you Elasticsearch instance.

curl  http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices\?v

The output should look like this:

health status index           uuid                   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green  open   the_hive_15     Oap-I61ySgyv6EAI1ZUTFQ   5   0      30977           36     33.2mb 

The index name is the_hive_15. Record this somewhere.

Stop services#

Before starting updating the database, lets stop applications:

sudo service thehive stop 

Create a new index#

The First operation lies in creating a new index named new_the_hive_15 with settings from current index the_hive_15 (ensure to keep index version, needed for future upgrade).

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/new_the_hive_15' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d "$(curl http://localhost:9200/the_hive_15 |\
   jq '.the_hive_15 |
   del(.settings.index.provided_name,
    .settings.index.creation_date,
    .settings.index.uuid,
    .settings.index.version,
    .settings.index.mapping.single_type,
    .mappings.doc._all)'
    )"

Check the new index is well created:

curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices\?v

The output should look like this:

health status index           uuid                   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
yellow open   new_the_hive_15 A2KLoZPpSXygutlfy_RNCQ   5   1          0            0      1.1kb          1.1kb
green  open   the_hive_15     Oap-I61ySgyv6EAI1ZUTFQ   5   0      30977           36     33.2mb         33.2mb

Proceed to Reindex#

Next operation lies in running the reindex command in the newly created index:

curl -XPOST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://localhost:9200/_reindex -d '{
  "conflicts": "proceed",
  "source": {
    "index": "the_hive_15"
  },
  "dest": {
    "index": "new_the_hive_15"
  }
}'

After a moment, you should get a similar output:

{
    "took": 5119,
    "timed_out": false,
    "total": 5889,
    "updated": 0,
    "created": 5889,
    "deleted": 0,
    "batches": 6,
    "version_conflicts": 0,
    "noops": 0,
    "retries": {
        "bulk": 0,
        "search": 0
    },
    "throttled_millis": 0,
    "requests_per_second": -1.0,
    "throttled_until_millis": 0,
    "failures": []
}

Ensure new index has been created#

Run the following command, and ensure the new index is like the current one (size can vary):

curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices\?v

The output should look like this:

health status index           uuid                   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green  open   new_the_hive_15 GV-3Y8QjTjWw0F-p2sjW6Q   5   0      30977            0       26mb           26mb
green  open   the_hive_15     Oap-I61ySgyv6EAI1ZUTFQ   5   0      30977           36     33.2mb         33.2mb

Delete old indices#

This is the thrilling part. Now the new index new_the_hive_15 is created and similar the_hive_15, older indexes should be completely deleted from the database. To delete index named the_hive_15, run the following command:

curl -XDELETE http://localhost:9200/the_hive_15

Run the same command for older indexes if exist (the_hive_14, the_hive_13....). Elasticsearch 7.x cannot run with index created with Elasticsearch 5.x.

Create an alias#

Before stopping Elasticsearch service, let’s create an alias to keep index names in the future.

curl -XPOST -H 'Content-Type: application/json'  'http://localhost:9200/_aliases' -d '{
    "actions": [
        {
            "add": {
                "index": "new_the_hive_15",
                "alias": "the_hive_15"
            }
        }
    ]
}'

Doing so will allow TheHive 3.5.0 to find the index without updating the configuration file.

Check the alias has been well created by running the following command

curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_alias?pretty

The output should look like:

{
  "new_the_hive_15" : {
    "aliases" : {
      "the_hive_15" : { }
    }
  }
}

Stop Elasticsearch version 6.8.2#

sudo service elasticsearch stop 

Update Elasticsearch#

Update the configuration of Elastisearch. Configuration file should look like this:

[..]
http.host: 127.0.0.1
discovery.type: single-node
cluster.name: hive
script.allowed_types: inline
thread_pool.search.queue_size: 100000
thread_pool.write.queue_size: 10000    

Now, upgrade Elasticsearch to version 7.x following the documentation for your Operating System, and ensure the service start successfully.

Install or update to TheHive 3.5.0#

DEB package#

If using Debian based Linux operating system, configure it to follow our beta repository:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheHive-Project/TheHive/master/PGP-PUBLIC-KEY | sudo apt-key add -
echo 'deb https://deb.thehive-project.org release main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/thehive-project.list
sudo apt-get update
Then install it by running:

sudo apt install thehive

or

sudo apt install thehive=3.5.0-1

RPM#

Setup your system to connect the RPM repository. Create and edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/thehive-project.repo :

[thehive-project]
enabled=1
priority=1
name=TheHive-Project RPM repository
baseurl=http://rpm.thehive-project.org/release/noarch
gpgcheck=1

Then install it by running:

sudo yum install thehive

or

sudo yum install thehive-3.5.0-1

Install binaries#

cd /opt
wget https://download.thehive-project.org/thehive-3.5.0-1.zip
unzip thehive-3.5.0-1.zip
ln -s thehive-3.5.0-1 thehive

Docker images#

Docker images are also provided on Dockerhub.

docker pull thehiveproject/thehive:3.5.0-1

Update Database#

Connect to TheHive, the maintenance page should ask to update.

Once updated, ensure a new index named the_hive_16 has been created.

curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices\?v

The output should look like this:

health status index           uuid                   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green  open   new_the_hive_15 GV-3Y8QjTjWw0F-p2sjW6Q   5   0      30977            0       26mb           26mb
yellow open   the_hive_16     Nz0vCKqhRK2xkx1t_WF-0g   5   1      30977            0     26.1mb         26.1mb

Last update: March 2, 2021 11:39:03