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Beats version 1.0.0-rc1
editBeats version 1.0.0-rc1
editBreaking changes
editAffecting all Beats
- Rename timestamp field with @timestamp. #237
Packetbeat
- Rename timestamp field with @timestamp. #343
Topbeat
- Rename timestamp field with @timestamp for a better integration with Logstash. #80
Filebeat
- Rename the timestamp field with @timestamp #168
- Rename tail_on_rotate prospector config to tail_files
- Removal of line field in event. Line number was not correct and does not add value. #217
Bugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Use stderr for console log output. #219
- Handle empty event array in publisher. #207
- Respect * debug selector in IsDebug. #226 (elastic/packetbeat#339)
- Limit number of workers for Elasticsearch output. elastic/packetbeat#226
- On Windows, remove service related error message when running in the console. #242
- Fix waitRetry no configured in single output mode configuration. elastic/filebeat#144
- Use http as the default scheme in the elasticsearch hosts #253
- Respect max bulk size if bulk publisher (collector) is disabled or sync flag is set.
- Always evaluate status code from Elasticsearch responses when indexing events. #192
- Use bulk_max_size configuration option instead of bulk_size. #256
- Fix max_retries=0 (no retries) configuration option. #266
- Filename used for file based logging now defaults to beat name. #267
Packetbeat
- Close file descriptors used to monitor processes. #337
- Remove old RPM spec file. It moved to elastic/beats-packer. #334
Topbeat
- Don’t wait for one period until shutdown #75
Filebeat
- Omit fields from event JSON when null. #126
- Make offset and line value of type long in elasticsearch template to prevent overflow. #140
- Fix locking files for writing behaviour. #156
- Introduce document_type config option per prospector to define document type for event stored in elasticsearch. #133
- Add input_type field to published events reporting the prospector type being used. #133
- Fix high CPU usage when not connected to Elasticsearch or Logstash. #144
- Fix issue that files were not crawled anymore when encoding was set to something other then plain. #182
Added
editAffecting all Beats
- Add Console output plugin. #218
- Add timestamp to log messages #245
- Send @metadata.beat to Logstash instead of @metadata.index to prevent possible name clashes and give user full control over index name used for Elasticsearch
- Add logging messages for bulk publishing in case of error #229
- Add option to configure number of parallel workers publishing to Elasticsearch or Logstash.
- Set default bulk size for Elasticsearch output to 50.
- Set default http timeout for Elasticsearch to 90s.
- Improve publish retry if sync flag is set by retrying only up to max bulk size events instead of all events to be published.
Filebeat
- Introduction of backoff, backoff_factor, max_backoff, partial_line_waiting, force_close_windows_files config variables to make crawling more configurable.
- All Godeps dependencies were updated to master on 2015-10-21 [#122]
- Set default value for ignore_older config to 10 minutes. #164
- Added the fields_under_root setting to optionally store the custom fields top level in the output dictionary. #188
- Add more encodings by using x/text/encodings/htmlindex package to select encoding by name.
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