Filebeat Client/Server Version Mismatch

[dieg0 (Diego)]

We have one server (A) running a docker cluster (Node.js and Elasticsearch) and a separate server (B) running ELK Stack.

Logs should get shipped from Server A using filebet, it is installed independent from docker cluster.

Server B has Kafka to stream logs from Server A.

Everything seems to be setup ok but Filbeat logs:

[root@servera filebeat]# Exiting: Error in initing prospector: Error response from daemon: client is newer than server (client API version: 1.22, server API version: 1.19)

our filebeat yml

filebeat.prospectors:
- type: log
  paths:
    - /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*.log
  document_type: docker
  enabled: true
  processors:
    - add_docker_metadata: ~
output.kafka:
   hosts: ["172.30.20.78:9092", "172.30.20.78:9093", "172.30.20.78:9094"]
   topic: cgr-logs
   enabled: true

setup.template.settings:
  index.number_of_shards: 3

setup.kibana:
  host: "172.30.20.78:5601"

We don't know what client / server API is mismatching, do you know what could be the issue?

Server Running on RHEL 7 and filebeat version 6.2.4 (amd64), libbeat 6.2.4 and kafka_2.11-0.10.0.1

[adrisr (Adrian Serrano)]

This error is returned by the Docker daemon, which seems not to be compatible with our docker client. Any chance to upgrade it?

[adrisr (Adrian Serrano)]

In our next release, 6.3.0, there is a fix to prevent this problem from happening:

Negotiate Docker API version

[dieg0 (Diego)]

Ok thanks, this means we will have to downgrade filebeat. Do you know what filebeat version would be compatible with 1.19 Server API?