diff --git a/config.changelog.yaml b/config.changelog.yaml
index 77b9c60a47e..c2eeb7461b6 100644
--- a/config.changelog.yaml
+++ b/config.changelog.yaml
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ owner: elastic
 repo: beats
 rendered_changelog_destination: docs/release-notes/_snippets
 file_type: markdown
+subsections: true