# Upgrade grafana on PMM2 on AWS AMI

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410>\
**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)\
**Tags:** pmm\
**Created:** [January 30, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410 "2025-01-30T07:12:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![khaled1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9d8465/32.png) [@khaled1](https://forums.percona.com/u/khaled1)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/1 "2025-01-30T07:12:35Z")

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## Description:

I installed PMM from AWS AMI images, I did yum update and updated all packages, I am using AWS Inspector to monitor servers vulnerabilities, the inspector show that there are 5 critical vulnerabilities on Grafan, I need to find how can I upgrade Grafana version to latest and fix these vulnerabilities

## Steps to Reproduce:

install PMM 2 on AWS from AMI image

## Version:

[root@pmm-server grafana]# grafana -v  
grafana version 9.2.20  
PMM version: 2.44.0

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**Author:** ![khaled1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9d8465/32.png) [@khaled1](https://forums.percona.com/u/khaled1)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/2 "2025-01-30T07:36:48Z")

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more details from Vanta about this issue

Package name

> **[GitHub - grafana/grafana: The open and composable observability and data...](https://github.com/grafana/grafana)**
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> The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

Installed version

v0.0.0-20240319182150-590c657828b5

Fixed version

5.2.3

Remediation

None Provided

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-15727

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**Author:** ![nurlan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/nurlan/32/1523_2.png) [@nurlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/nurlan)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/3 "2025-01-30T08:34:53Z")

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Hello, as we use forked version of grafana it’s not possible to upgrade to upstream grafana. We are finishing PMM 3 release preparation where we have Grafana 11. I recommend to wait for PMM 3 release and then upgrade to it.

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**Author:** ![khaled1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9d8465/32.png) [@khaled1](https://forums.percona.com/u/khaled1)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/4 "2025-01-30T14:05:13Z")

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Hi Nurian,

Thanks for your reply, I saw in the PMM website that PMM 3 is released, but the migration instructions is for docker setup, I want to ask when I can do the upgrade on my AMI image installed version, using Oracle linux 9 on AWS

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ademidoff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ademidoff/32/14234_2.png) [@ademidoff](https://forums.percona.com/u/ademidoff)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/5 "2025-01-30T15:22:11Z")

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Hi Khaled,

Normally we need a few more days until we get the AMI image scanned and approved by AWS. It will then show up as available on their Marketplace.

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**Author:** ![khaled1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9d8465/32.png) [@khaled1](https://forums.percona.com/u/khaled1)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/6 "2025-02-02T07:48:21Z")

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Hi Ademidoff

Thanks for your reply, great to hear this,  
but I want to ask if I can do inplace upgrade to the new release or I should create new instance from new AMI, also if I need to export old data from PMM2 running on docker setup, can I do this and how

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![nurlan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/nurlan/32/1523_2.png) [@nurlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/nurlan)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/7 "2025-02-03T16:24:01Z")

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Hi @khaled1, it will require setting up separate PMM 3 instance and copy your data from old one. PTAL [Migrate PMM 2 to PMM 3 - Percona Monitoring and Management](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/3/pmm-upgrade/migrating_from_pmm_2.html#__tabbed_2_5). Exporting old data from PMM 2 running on docker setup can be done by copying data from /srv directory in PMM container using docker cp command and then pasting it. in the page I shared above there are multiple options to migrate from PMM 2 to PMM 3

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**Author:** ![khaled1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9d8465/32.png) [@khaled1](https://forums.percona.com/u/khaled1)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/8 "2025-02-09T07:37:10Z")

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Hi Nurlan,

I want to ask about AMI image estimated release date, because my Vanta vulnarabilties deadline is February 28, do you think the PMM 3 AMI image will be ready before that date,

Thanks

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**Author:** ![khaled1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9d8465/32.png) [@khaled1](https://forums.percona.com/u/khaled1)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/9 "2025-02-13T08:43:23Z")

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Hi,

Can I download the OVA for PMM 3 and convert it to AWS AMI , then create new server from this AMI, If I do this, should this setup get all new updates from your side?, Or should I wait untill AWS approve the AMI

Thanks

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**Author:** ![nurlan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/nurlan/32/1523_2.png) [@nurlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/nurlan)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-grafana-on-pmm2-on-aws-ami/36410/10 "2025-03-06T13:53:46Z")

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Hi @khaled1  
you can try it. They are almost identical. new PMM 3 AMI deployment is actually pretty simple. it’s OL9 system where we run PMM 3 using docker. steps we used to do that is almost the same what described in [Install PMM Server with Podman on Docker image - Percona Monitoring and Management](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/3/install-pmm/install-pmm-server/deployment-options/podman/index.html).
