# Is it possible to use Filebeat 6.0 with ES Cluster 5.x? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [July 31, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-filebeat-6-0-with-es-cluster-5-x/95220 "2017-07-31T17:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![outcoldman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/outcoldman/32/20061_2.png) [@outcoldman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/outcoldman)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-filebeat-6-0-with-es-cluster-5-x/95220/1 "2017-07-31T17:02:13Z")
Filebeat has a lot of great features. Is the output of filebeat compatible with ES Cluster 5.x? Including mapping, kibana dashboards, etc? This page does not have 6.0 yet [https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#show\_compatibility](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#show_compatibility) ---
**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-filebeat-6-0-with-es-cluster-5-x/95220/2 "2017-08-01T01:20:06Z")
Filebeat will detect that it's communicating to ES 5.x and use the appropriate index template. I think some of the new Filebeat modules have dashboards that only work with 6.x. But I'm not 100% certain on the dashboards b/c I haven't tried it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-filebeat-6-0-with-es-cluster-5-x/95220/3 "2017-08-21T17:02:18Z")
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