# About upgrading Discourse from the Admin dashboard
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-upgrading-discourse-from-the-admin-dashboard/258664
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 19, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-upgrading-discourse-from-the-admin-dashboard/258664 "2023-03-19T17:00:01Z")
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### Author:  [@AkaiBukai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AkaiBukai)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-upgrading-discourse-from-the-admin-dashboard/258664/1 "2023-03-19T17:00:02Z")
Hello everybody,
I am running my self hosted instance since a couple of weeks and it seems there is an upgrade available in the admin dashboard (v3.1.0.beta2 +622 → v3.1.0.beta3 +13) and I wanted to know a couple of things about upgrading Discourse.
If I upgrade from the admin dashboard, will I have a downtime?
If it’s the case, is there some options I can enable in order to have zero downtime upgrade?
I installed Discourse using the guide in here: [discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md)
Many thanks!
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-upgrading-discourse-from-the-admin-dashboard/258664/2 "2023-03-20T01:55:55Z")
From my experience don’t believe there is downtime while upgrading via the web interface. I have clicked go back to site or now went back to reading posts once in awhile checking on upgrade status in the upgrade rab in Admin.
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### Author:  [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-upgrading-discourse-from-the-admin-dashboard/258664/3 "2023-03-20T08:16:46Z")
Note that a dashboard upgrade is not always available, and when it is available, it’s not always successful. You might find you need to do a command-line upgrade after all, so make sure you have the time to do that.
With a command-line upgrade, you can expect 5 to 10 mins of downtime, maybe more, depending on how big your data is and how fast your host.
There is an advanced setup which delivers zero downtime, or very short downtime - you’ll need expertise! I haven’t tried this.
[Move from standalone container to separate web and data containers](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-from-standalone-container-to-separate-web-and-data-containers/29413)
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 11:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-upgrading-discourse-from-the-admin-dashboard/258664/4 "2023-03-20T11:04:44Z")
> [@Ed\_S](#):
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> maybe more
20-30 minutes is closer reality than 5-10 mins with standalone container.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-upgrading-discourse-from-the-admin-dashboard/258664/5 "2023-03-20T17:46:28Z")
Yes I had an odf event recently where members said the loading slider was stuck in a loop. A command line upgrade fixed it. Hadn’t had this prior to thr new admin upgrade section.
Things were fine on my end I think due to cache.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-upgrading-discourse-from-the-admin-dashboard/258664/6 "2023-04-19T17:47:15Z")
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