[[indices-upgrade]]
== Upgrade

The upgrade API allows to upgrade one or more indices to the latest format
through an API. The upgrade process converts any segments written
with previous formats.

[source,js]
=== Start an upgrade
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$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/_upgrade'
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Note that upgrading is an I/O intensive operation, and is limited to processing
a single shard per node at a time.  It also is not allowed to run at the same time
as optimize.

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[[upgrade-parameters]]
==== Request Parameters

The upgrade API accepts the following request parameters:

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`wait_for_completion`:: Should the request wait the upgrade to complete. Defaults
to `false`.

=== Check upgrade status
Use a `GET` request to monitor how much of an index is upgraded.  This
can also be used prior to starting an upgrade to identify which indices
you want to upgrade at the same time.
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$ curl 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/_upgrade?human'
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[source,js]
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{
   "twitter": {
      "size": "21gb",
      "size_in_bytes": "21000000000",
      "size_to_upgrade": "10gb",
      "size_to_upgrade_in_bytes": "10000000000"
   }
}
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