# Is Filebeat 6.2.3/6.2.4 compatible with Kafka 1.1.0?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-filebeat-6-2-3-6-2-4-compatible-with-kafka-1-1-0/128948
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [April 21, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-filebeat-6-2-3-6-2-4-compatible-with-kafka-1-1-0/128948 "2018-04-21T00:15:35Z")
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### Author: ![Bernie\_Hsiung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@Bernie\_Hsiung](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bernie_Hsiung)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-filebeat-6-2-3-6-2-4-compatible-with-kafka-1-1-0/128948/1 "2018-04-21T00:15:35Z")

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The current Sarama website says that it supports from Kafka 0.11 to Kafka 1.1.0, but it's not clear to me what version of Sarama is bundled into the latest available version of Filebeat.

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### Author: ![adrisr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adrisr/32/25423_2.png) [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2018, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-filebeat-6-2-3-6-2-4-compatible-with-kafka-1-1-0/128948/2 "2018-04-24T09:56:44Z")

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We're using Sarama 1.12, which claimed to support up to Kafka 0.10.2, the latest version at the time it was released.

However, Kafka is backwards compatible, a newer cluster (1.1.0) is able to deal with older clients (filebeat).

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-filebeat-6-2-3-6-2-4-compatible-with-kafka-1-1-0/128948/3 "2018-05-22T10:05:05Z")

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