# Kafka output support in Filebeat. Anyone using Filebeat with Kafka version \>2.2.0
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-output-support-in-filebeat-anyone-using-filebeat-with-kafka-version-2-2-0/252038
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 14, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-output-support-in-filebeat-anyone-using-filebeat-with-kafka-version-2-2-0/252038 "2020-10-14T11:55:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Hreidar\_Joelsson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hreidar_Joelsson)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-output-support-in-filebeat-anyone-using-filebeat-with-kafka-version-2-2-0/252038/1 "2020-10-14T11:55:48Z")
Hi, I'm looking into using Filebeat as an ingress into a pipeline which is based on Kafka. I'm currently using an on-prem Kafka cluster which has brokers running Kafka version 2.5.0 but I see that the highest version supported by Filebeat is 2.2.0. I just need a simple tool to stream log data into Kafka in JSON format.
Has anyone tried using Filebeat with Kafka version 2.5.x ?
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-output-support-in-filebeat-anyone-using-filebeat-with-kafka-version-2-2-0/252038/2 "2020-10-21T13:16:00Z")
We are only testing with 2.2 and planning to add 2.3 to our testing matrix. Do you mind opening an issue on Github and ask for support of 2.5? [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new)
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### Author:  [@Hreidar\_Joelsson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hreidar_Joelsson)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-output-support-in-filebeat-anyone-using-filebeat-with-kafka-version-2-2-0/252038/3 "2020-10-21T13:32:50Z")
Hi, I did test it and it seems to work for my use-case which is to grab loglines from some files and publish them into a Kafka topic for later processing. I will open an issue if I crash into some walls with my setup.
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-output-support-in-filebeat-anyone-using-filebeat-with-kafka-version-2-2-0/252038/4 "2020-10-21T13:48:49Z")
No, please open an issue regardless if you see problems. We do not guarantee that Kafka 2.5 works with Beats until we add it to our testing infra. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-output-support-in-filebeat-anyone-using-filebeat-with-kafka-version-2-2-0/252038/5 "2020-11-18T15:48:52Z")
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