---
title: "Updating"
slug: "updating"
updated: 2025-04-25T13:18:48Z
published: 2025-04-25T13:18:48Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://composer.docs.vindral.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Updating

Composer Monitor releases are delivered as a compressed zip archive.

Each release contains a complete setup with dashboards.

          Backup Composer Monitor before updating

          

If you have many changes or additions - take a backup of your entire Composer Monitor folder before updating to prevent any data loss.

## General

1. Composer monitor expects that the zip file and its content is extracted and used in its entirety to work.
2. Any modifications to **included** dashboards will be **overwritten**. It is the customer's responsibility to identify and merge any changes made.
3. Any extensions (added dashboards) **not included** in the zip file's `dashboard` folder will not be overwritten.

## Update

          Backup composerInstances.yml

          

Make sure to backup `composerInstances.yml` before proceeding (or make sure not to overwrite it with the updated zip's contents

1. Overwrite the Composer Monitor folder with the updated contents.
2. Restore the backup version of `composerInstances.yml`
3. Restart Composer Monitor

Depending on how Docker is setup on the system, perform either version below that works:

```
docker compose restart
```

or

```
docker-compose restart
```