diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index 527bf1fc2..1532dd02c 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -825,6 +825,7 @@ up_to_2.3.130() {
 }
 
 up_to_2.3.140() {
+  so-elastalert-stop
   ## Deleting Elastalert indices to prevent issues with upgrade to Elastic 8 ##
   echo "Deleting Elastalert indices to prevent issues with upgrade to Elastic 8..."
   # Wait for ElasticSearch to initialize