Support Matrix

^ Elasticsearch output compatibility - Connector Clients, Beats, Logstash, and Elastic Agent indexing data to Elasticsearch

* We recommend running the latest version of Connector Clients, Beats, Logstash, Elastic Agent and ES-Hadoop; earlier versions will work with reduced functionality.

** Starting in version 6.3, X-Pack features are included in the default distributions of Elastic Stack. See https://www.elastic.co/what-is/open-x-pack.

*** APM Server 6.7 & 6.8 work with Elasticsearch 7.0, but data must be migrated using the Upgrade Assistant to be visible in Kibana 7.0.

**** App Search moved to Enterprise Search in 7.7.0 onwards.

***** Elastic Agent was GA in 7.14. Prior releases were experimental and have limited compatibility

"+" APM Server versions <=8.6 are not compatible with >=8.15.x versions of Elasticsearch by default. Please refer to the APM known issues section for further details.

** Beats to Logstash has a separate compatibility chart

* Compatibility applies to the monitoring & management Elasticsearch cluster and any Elasticsearch clusters that metrics are routed through. This includes any cluster(s) referenced in the xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.url and xpack.management.elasticsearch.url settings. It’s highly recommended to run the same minor versions across Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash for best monitoring & management functionality. For versions 6.2 and older, X-Pack must be installed on all products.

** Prior to version 7.4, Functionbeat is only compatible with Elasticsearch as an output destination. Logstash and other outputs are not supported. Starting with version 7.4, Functionbeat supports Elasticsearch and Logstash outputs.

*** Only APM Server standalone (not managed by Elastic Agent) supports output to Logstash

* Compatibility applies to the monitoring Elasticsearch cluster and any Elasticsearch clusters that metrics are routed through. This includes any cluster(s) referenced in the xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch settings. It’s highly recommended to run the same minor versions across Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Beats for best monitoring functionality. For version 6.2, X-Pack must be installed on all products.

** Functionbeat is only compatible with Elasticsearch as an output destination. Logstash and other outputs are not supported.

*** Uptime 7.x is not compatible with Heartbeat 6.x or below.

** It is highly recommended that Beats is at the same version or below that of Elasticsearch.

** Beats needs to be at the same version or below that of Elasticsearch

Elastic Agent is compatible with stack components either on this version or newer versions.