# Filebeat 5.x pushing to Elasticsearch 6.8.x via Kafka topic **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [February 28, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-x-pushing-to-elasticsearch-6-8-x-via-kafka-topic/221475 "2020-02-28T18:49:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sandeepkanabar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sandeepkanabar/32/79399_2.png) [@sandeepkanabar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepkanabar)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-x-pushing-to-elasticsearch-6-8-x-via-kafka-topic/221475/1 "2020-02-28T18:49:39Z")
From the [product compatibility matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_compatibility), Elasticsearch 6.8.x is compatible with Beats (say filebeats) version 5.6.x to 6.8.x. Will it work, if I'm using filebeats version 5.5.1 to push to Kafka topic and Logstash 6.8.x is picking up messages from the kafka topic and indexing to ES 6.8.x? ---
**Author:** ![sandeepkanabar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sandeepkanabar/32/79399_2.png) [@sandeepkanabar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepkanabar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-x-pushing-to-elasticsearch-6-8-x-via-kafka-topic/221475/2 "2020-03-16T19:06:02Z")
@Christian_Dahlqvist - any thoughts on this? It seems to work but just want to be doubly sure of this. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-x-pushing-to-elasticsearch-6-8-x-via-kafka-topic/221475/3 "2020-04-13T19:06:10Z")
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