diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index 41088cb58bd..81b0781c9c7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ otherwise no tag is added. {issue}42208[42208] {pull}42403[42403]
 - Introduce ignore older and start timestamp filters for AWS S3 input. {pull}41804[41804]
 - Journald input now can report its status to Elastic-Agent {issue}39791[39791] {pull}42462[42462]
 - Publish events progressively in the Okta provider of the Entity Analytics input. {issue}40106[40106] {pull}42567[42567]
+- The journald input is now generally available. {pull}42107[42107]
 
 *Auditbeat*
 
diff --git a/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-journald.asciidoc b/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-journald.asciidoc
index d2bf341d60f..bfd26388538 100644
--- a/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-journald.asciidoc
+++ b/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-journald.asciidoc
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 <titleabbrev>journald</titleabbrev>
 ++++
 
-experimental[]
-
 https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html[`journald`]
 is a system service that collects and stores logging data. The `journald` input
 reads this log data and the metadata associated with it. To read this
diff --git a/filebeat/input/journald/input.go b/filebeat/input/journald/input.go
index b83b8098ffa..65864b6539f 100644
--- a/filebeat/input/journald/input.go
+++ b/filebeat/input/journald/input.go
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ const pluginName = "journald"
 func Plugin(log *logp.Logger, store cursor.StateStore) input.Plugin {
 	return input.Plugin{
 		Name:       pluginName,
-		Stability:  feature.Experimental,
+		Stability:  feature.Stable,
 		Deprecated: false,
 		Info:       "journald input",
 		Doc:        "The journald input collects logs from the local journald service",