diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 3399f8e07..672941bee 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ highstate() {
   salt-call state.highstate -l info queue=True
 }
 
-highstate_elastic() {
+upgrade_searchnode_elasticsearch() {
   # Run the elasticsearch state across the true elastic cluster (non-heavy) with a retry attempt
   #   Excludes the manager, so that kibana & elasticfleet are not upgraded until searchnodes are upgraded.
   echo "Getting ready to upgrade Elasticsearch across the grid. This may take a while..."
@@ -2136,7 +2136,7 @@ main() {
     if [[ "$es_version" != "$target_es_version" ]]; then
       if salt-key -L accepted | grep -q "_searchnode$" 2>/dev/null; then
         # only run if there is atleast 1 searchnode
-        highstate_elastic
+        upgrade_searchnode_elasticsearch
       fi
     fi
     set -e