Learn how to get started with migrating your cluster to Elastic Cloud. Hear about the best practices and strategies for migrating your clusters and data to Elastic Cloud. The topics we'll cover include deployment sizing, indexing your data, restoring from snapshots, and more.

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Best practices for
migrating to Elastic Cloud
Osman Ishaq - Product Manager, Elastic Cloud

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3. SaaS Orchestration
Elastic Cloud
on Kubernetes
Elastic
Cloud
Elastic Cloud
Enterprise
Elastic Enterprise Search Elastic SecurityElastic Observability
Kibana
Elasticsearch
Beats Logstash
Powered by the
Elastic Stack
3 solutions
Deployed
anywhere
Elastic technology

4. Fast time to value Operational Simplicity Secure from the start
Agility Development Simplicity Reduce Risk
SECURITYSPEED SIMPLICITY
Elastic Cloud - managed Elastic Stack

5. Exclusive features
Streamlined
operations
Compliant
Why migrate to Elastic Cloud?
Multi-cloud ready
HIPAA, CSA Star Level 2,
SOC 2 Type 1, Type 2, and
SOC 3, ISO 27001 / 27107 /
27018, FedRAMP
authorized at Moderate
impact level with AWS
Upgrade to new features in
our latest releases with one
click and zero downtime.
Automated backups. And if
you need it, support from
the creators of the stack.
Elastic solutions ready to
deploy: Enterprise Search,
Observability, and Security
Out-of-the-box apps like
Logs, Metrics, APM, and
SIEM  with integrated
features like machine
learning and Kibana Lens
Deploy on optimized virtual
hardware.
Available on Google Cloud,
Microsoft Azure, or AWS

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Migrating to
Elastic Cloud

7. Login to Elastic Cloud

8. Size your Elasticsearch data nodes

9. Migrating your data
2. Migrating existing data
Move your existing data and
saved objects
Divided into two parts
1. Indexing at the source
Reduces operational
interruptions

10. Common Elastic Stack architectures
LogstashBeatsApplication
BeatsApplication
Application
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
ElasticsearchElasticsearch Clients

11. Indexing data from the source
LogstashBeatsApplication
Elasticsearch
Add an additional output source
Elastic Cloud

12. Indexing data from the source
Application
Update your shipping agents
Beats
Beats
Application
Elasticsearch
Beats
Or
Elastic Cloud
Elastic Cloud

13. Indexing data from the source
Application
Update your Elasticsearch clients
Elasticsearch Clients Elastic Cloud

14. Migrating existing Elasticsearch data
• Migrate the data that resides in your existing Elasticsearch cluster
into Elastic Cloud
• Includes your dashboards, saved queries, index lifecycle management
policies, etc
• Two approaches:
– Remote Reindex
– Snapshot & Restore

15. POST _reindex
{
"source": {
"remote": {
"host": "https://REMOTE_ELASTICSEARCH_ENDPOINT:PORT",
"username": "USER",
"password": "PASSWORD"
},
"index": "INDEX_NAME",
"query": {
"match_all": {}
}
},
"dest": {
"index": "INDEX_NAME"
}
}
Migrating existing Elasticsearch data
Remote Reindex

16. Migrating existing Elasticsearch data
Snapshot & Restore
Snapshot repository
Restore from
snapshot
Create
snapshot
Elastic CloudElasticsearch

17. Migrating from Amazon Elasticsearch
Detailed step-by-step guide

18. Migrating from Splunk, New Relic, others
General migration guide whitepaper

19. Snapshot & Restore
Demo

20. Thank You!