Migrating from self-managed Elastic Stack to Elastic Cloud using snapshot and restore with Google Cloud Storage

This blog post assumes that you already have a deployment of a self-managed Elastic stack that includes a search index, ready for migration. If you’d like to see a detailed set of steps covering how to create a self-managed deployment running in Docker on your own local computer, please check out step 1 and step 2 of a recent blog post I wrote titled Migrating from self-managed Elastic Stack to Elastic Cloud using snapshot and restore with Amazon S3. Once you’ve got your self-managed Elastic stack running and ready for migration to Elastic Cloud, come back to this blog post for the specific instructions on how to perform a snapshot and restore migration using Google Cloud and Google Cloud Storage.

This blog post covers three main steps:

1. Create an Elastic Cloud Deployment.

2. Migrate a self-managed Elastic stack to Elastic Cloud using Google Cloud.

3. Update any Elastic data collectors to send data to the Elastic Cloud deployment.

Sign in to Elastic Cloud to use an existing cloud deployment or to create a new deployment. There’s a 14-day free trial available if you’re a new user.

This final step only applies if you’ve got existing data collectors like Elastic Agents or Elastic Integrations sending data to your self-managed Elastic stack. For any Elastic data collectors that you have deployed like Dataflow PubSub jobs or an Elastic Agent on a Google Compute Engine VM for example, you’ll need to update each data collector so that it points to your Elastic Cloud deployment.

You’ve now seen the complete process to migrate a self-managed Elastic stack to Elastic Cloud, where you’ll benefit from having an Elastic deployment that is always running the latest version, can autoscale, and has access to the best new features for search, observability, and security like Elastic’s new AI Assistant. Migrate your self-managed Elastic stack to Elastic Cloud today and give yourself the peace of mind that comes with having Elastic manage your deployment. Running Elastic in the cloud will ensure that your precious time can be devoted to all the other important things you need to get done every day.