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@masseyke masseyke commented May 7, 2025

Watcher can fail to start on upgrade due to an index template conflict. See #127531. This adds it to the 9.0 known issues.

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LGTM

For information about editing your JVM settings, refer to [JVM settings](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch/jvm-settings).
* Users upgrading from an Elasticsearch cluster that had previously been on a version between 7.10.0 and 7.12.1 may see that Watcher will not start on 9.x. The solution is to run the following commands in Kibana Dev Tools:
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Perhaps mention "or curl"? Up to you though

@masseyke masseyke merged commit 4790910 into elastic:main May 7, 2025
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💚 Backport successful

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@brianseeders should this be added via a changelog yaml file, to avoid being blown away in future?

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@leemthompo there's currently no automation around known issues, as I believe that file is completely managed by hand by you folks

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Roger that, thank you 👍

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there's currently no automation around known issues

@brianseeders is this true for 8.x too?

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