# Ignition upgrade **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [February 19, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-upgrade/5896 "2013-02-19T20:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jcam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@Jcam](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jcam)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-upgrade/5896/1 "2013-02-19T20:36:10Z")
I am currently running 7.2.9 How hard is it to upgrade to the latest version? Can it be done without shutting down our production? ---
**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-upgrade/5896/2 "2013-02-19T23:22:59Z")
#1, you may want to check with your account rep to see if your license will support an upgrade. In my experience, upgrades with ignition usually go pretty well, although I am having an issue right now after an upgrade that I will be needing some help on myself. ---
**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-upgrade/5896/3 "2013-02-19T23:27:04Z")
If you aren’t running in HA, You will take an outage to do the upgrade. Most times, It takes about 10 mins. Schedule more of course, because Murphy was an optimist. ---
**Author:** ![greg.simpson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/greg.simpson/32/3135_2.png) [@greg.simpson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg.simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-upgrade/5896/4 "2013-02-20T00:44:23Z")
Your gateway service will be down while you are upgrading. And like Dravik said, it only takes about ten minutes. Make sure you do a gateway backup first. You can email us at [support@inductiveautomation.com](mailto:support@inductiveautomation.com) with your cd key and we can tell you what your upgrade options are. Or, you can call your sales rep or tech support.