diff --git a/.chloggen/elastic-stable-nodevesiongate.yaml b/.chloggen/elastic-stable-nodevesiongate.yaml
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..338744b02d35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/elastic-stable-nodevesiongate.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+# If your change doesn't affect end users, such as a test fix or a tooling change,
+# you should instead start your pull request title with [chore] or use the "Skip Changelog" label.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: breaking
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. filelogreceiver)
+component: elasticsearchreceiver
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Bump 'receiver.elasticsearch.emitNodeVersionAttr' to stable
+
+# Mandatory: One or more tracking issues related to the change. You can use the PR number here if no issue exists.
+issues: [16847]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext: All node metrics are now enriched with the node version resource attribute.
diff --git a/receiver/elasticsearchreceiver/scraper.go b/receiver/elasticsearchreceiver/scraper.go
index 0c613bde4f97..94ee36ed7161 100644
--- a/receiver/elasticsearchreceiver/scraper.go
+++ b/receiver/elasticsearchreceiver/scraper.go
@@ -30,17 +30,12 @@ var (
 		v, _ := version.NewVersion("7.13")
 		return v
 	}()
-)
-
-const (
-	readmeURL = "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/receiver/elasticsearchreceiver/README.md"
-)
 
-var (
-	emitNodeVersionAttr = featuregate.GlobalRegistry().MustRegister(
+	_ = featuregate.GlobalRegistry().MustRegister(
 		"receiver.elasticsearch.emitNodeVersionAttr",
-		featuregate.StageBeta,
-		featuregate.WithRegisterDescription("When enabled, all node metrics will be enriched with the node version resource attribute."),
+		featuregate.StageStable,
+		featuregate.WithRegisterToVersion("0.82.0"),
+		featuregate.WithRegisterDescription("All node metrics will be enriched with the node version resource attribute."),
 		featuregate.WithRegisterReferenceURL("https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/16847"),
 	)
 )
@@ -54,29 +49,17 @@ type elasticsearchScraper struct {
 	mb          *metadata.MetricsBuilder
 	version     *version.Version
 	clusterName string
-
-	// Feature gates
-	emitNodeVersionAttr bool
 }
 
 func newElasticSearchScraper(
 	settings receiver.CreateSettings,
 	cfg *Config,
 ) *elasticsearchScraper {
-	e := &elasticsearchScraper{
-		settings:            settings.TelemetrySettings,
-		cfg:                 cfg,
-		mb:                  metadata.NewMetricsBuilder(cfg.MetricsBuilderConfig, settings),
-		emitNodeVersionAttr: emitNodeVersionAttr.IsEnabled(),
-	}
-
-	if !e.emitNodeVersionAttr {
-		settings.Logger.Warn(
-			fmt.Sprintf("Feature gate %s is not enabled. Please see the README for more information: %s", emitNodeVersionAttr.ID(), readmeURL),
-		)
+	return &elasticsearchScraper{
+		settings: settings.TelemetrySettings,
+		cfg:      cfg,
+		mb:       metadata.NewMetricsBuilder(cfg.MetricsBuilderConfig, settings),
 	}
-
-	return e
 }
 
 func (r *elasticsearchScraper) start(_ context.Context, host component.Host) (err error) {
@@ -128,15 +111,12 @@ func (r *elasticsearchScraper) scrapeNodeMetrics(ctx context.Context, now pcommo
 		return
 	}
 
-	var nodesInfo *model.Nodes
-	if r.emitNodeVersionAttr {
-		// Certain node metadata is not available from the /_nodes/stats endpoint. Therefore, we need to get this metadata
-		// from the /_nodes endpoint. The metadata may or may not be used depending on feature gates.
-		nodesInfo, err = r.client.Nodes(ctx, r.cfg.Nodes)
-		if err != nil {
-			errs.AddPartial(26, err)
-			return
-		}
+	// Certain node metadata is not available from the /_nodes/stats endpoint. Therefore, we need to get this metadata
+	// from the /_nodes endpoint.
+	nodesInfo, err := r.client.Nodes(ctx, r.cfg.Nodes)
+	if err != nil {
+		errs.AddPartial(26, err)
+		return
 	}
 
 	for id, info := range nodeStats.Nodes {
@@ -346,10 +326,8 @@ func (r *elasticsearchScraper) scrapeNodeMetrics(ctx context.Context, now pcommo
 			metadata.WithElasticsearchNodeName(info.Name),
 		}
 
-		if r.emitNodeVersionAttr {
-			if node, ok := nodesInfo.Nodes[id]; ok {
-				nodeMetadata = append(nodeMetadata, metadata.WithElasticsearchNodeVersion(node.Version))
-			}
+		if node, ok := nodesInfo.Nodes[id]; ok {
+			nodeMetadata = append(nodeMetadata, metadata.WithElasticsearchNodeVersion(node.Version))
 		}
 
 		r.mb.EmitForResource(nodeMetadata...)
diff --git a/receiver/elasticsearchreceiver/scraper_test.go b/receiver/elasticsearchreceiver/scraper_test.go
index 2d872e570ba6..ff903bb40d44 100644
--- a/receiver/elasticsearchreceiver/scraper_test.go
+++ b/receiver/elasticsearchreceiver/scraper_test.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component/componenttest"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/confighttp"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configtls"
-	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/featuregate"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/receivertest"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/scrapererror"
 
@@ -29,13 +28,6 @@ const fullExpectedMetricsPath = "./testdata/expected_metrics/full.yaml"
 const skipClusterExpectedMetricsPath = "./testdata/expected_metrics/clusterSkip.yaml"
 const noNodesExpectedMetricsPath = "./testdata/expected_metrics/noNodes.yaml"
 
-func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
-	// Enable the feature gates before all tests to avoid flaky tests.
-	_ = featuregate.GlobalRegistry().Set(emitNodeVersionAttr.ID(), true)
-	code := m.Run()
-	os.Exit(code)
-}
-
 func TestScraper(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()