# Would file beat 6 be backwards compatible with Elastic 5?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-file-beat-6-be-backwards-compatible-with-elastic-5/96020>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 6, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-file-beat-6-be-backwards-compatible-with-elastic-5/96020 "2017-08-06T15:47:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-file-beat-6-be-backwards-compatible-with-elastic-5/96020/1 "2017-08-06T15:47:03Z")

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Would love to use the new container metada with to index in my 5.x cluster 😛

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-file-beat-6-be-backwards-compatible-with-elastic-5/96020/2 "2017-08-06T23:50:06Z")

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Yes, it's the shipping agent so only relies on the ability to index data.

Is there a reason you wouldn't upgrade Elasticsearch though?

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**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-file-beat-6-be-backwards-compatible-with-elastic-5/96020/3 "2017-08-09T12:56:58Z")

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Using elastic 5.5.1 as a framework on dc/os. Also so far there seems to be an incompatibility because filebeat creates 6.x schema

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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:** [September 6, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-file-beat-6-be-backwards-compatible-with-elastic-5/96020/4 "2017-09-06T12:59:41Z")

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