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Beats version 7.0.0-alpha2
editBeats version 7.0.0-alpha2
editBreaking changes
editAffecting all Beats
- Update add_cloud_metadata fields to adjust to ECS. 9265
- Automaticall cap signed integers to 63bits. 8991
- Rename beat.timezone to event.timezone. 9458
- Use _doc as document type. 9056
- Removed dashboards and index patterns generation for Kibana 5. 8927
- On systems with systemd, the Beats log is now written to journald by default rather than file. To revert this behaviour override BEAT_LOG_OPTS with an empty value. 8942.
Auditbeat
- Remove warning for deprecated option: "filters". 9002
Filebeat
- Allow beats to blacklist certain part of the configuration while using Central Management. 9099
- Remove warnings for deprecated options: "spool_size", "publish_async", "idle_timeout". 9002
-
Rename many
haproxy.*
fields to map to ECS. 9117 -
Rename many
iis.access.*
fields to map to ECS. 9084 -
IIS module’s user agent string is no longer encoded (
+
replaced with spaces). 9084 -
Rename many
system.syslog.*
fields to map to ECS. 9135 -
Rename many
nginx.access.*
fields to map to ECS. 9081 -
Rename many
system.auth.*
fields to map to ECS. 9138 -
Rename many
apache2.access.*
fields to map to ECS. 9245 -
Rename
apache2
module toapache
. 9402
Metricbeat
Packetbeat
Functionbeat
Bugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Propagate Sync error when running SafeFileRotate. 9069
- Fix autodiscover configurations stopping when metadata is missing. 8851
- Log events at the debug level when dropped by encoding problems. 9251
- Refresh host metadata in add_host_metadata. 9359
- When collecting swap metrics for beats telemetry or system metricbeat module handle cases of free swap being bigger than total swap by assuming no swap is being used. 6271 9383
- Adding logging traces at debug level when the pipeline client receives the following events: onFilteredOut, onDroppedOnPublish. 9016
- Ignore non index fields in default_field for Elasticsearch. 9549
- Update Kibana index pattern attributes for objects that are disabled. 9644
- Enforce validation for the Central Management access token. 9621
- Update to Golang 1.11.4. 9627
Auditbeat
Filebeat
-
Correctly parse
December
orDec
in the Syslog input. 9349 - Fix installation of haproxy dashboard. 9307 9313
- Don’t generate incomplete configurations when logs collection is disabled by hints. 9305
- Stop runners disabled by hints after previously being started. 9305
- Fix saved objects in filebeat haproxy dashboard. 9417
-
Use
log.source.address
instead oflog.source.ip
for network input sources. 9487 -
Rename many
redis.log.*
fields to map to ECS. 9315 -
Rename many
icinga.*
fields to map to ECS. 9294 -
Rename many
postgresql.log.*
fields to map to ECS. 9308 -
Rename many
kafka.log.*
fields to map to ECS. 9297 -
Add
convert_timezone
option to Logstash module to convert dates to UTC. 9756 9797
Metricbeat
- Fix issue preventing diskio metrics collection for idle disks. 9124 9125
- Fix panic on docker healthcheck collection on dockers without healthchecks. 9171
- Fix issue with not collecting Elasticsearch cross-cluster replication stats correctly. 9179
-
The
node.name
field in theelasticsearch/node
metricset now correctly reports the Elasticsarch node name. Previously this field was incorrectly reporting the node ID instead. 9209
Packetbeat
Added
editAffecting all Beats - Unify dashboard exporter tools. 9097
- Unify dashboard exporter tools. 9097
- Add cache.ttl to add_host_metadata. 9359
- Add support for index lifecycle management (beta). 7963
- Always include Pod UID as part of Pod metadata. 9517
-
Autodiscovery no longer requires that the
condition
field be set. If left unset all configs will be matched. 9029 -
Add geo fields to
add_host_metadata
processor. 9392
Filebeat
- Added detect_null_bytes
selector to detect null bytes from a io.reader. 9210
-
Added the
redirect_stderr
option that allows panics to be logged to log files. 8430 -
Added
detect_null_bytes
selector to detect null bytes from a io.reader. 9210 -
Added
syslog_host
variable to HAProxy module to allow syslog listener to bind to configured host. 9366 - Added support on Traefik for Common Log Format and Combined Log Format mixed which is the default Traefik format 8015 6111 8768.
- Add support for multi-core thread_id in postgresql module 9156 9482
Heartbeat
Journalbeat
- Add cursor_seek_fallback option. 9234
Metricbeat
- Add settings to disable docker and cgroup cpu metrics per core. 9187 9194 9589
-
The
elasticsearch/node
metricset now reports the Elasticsearch cluster UUID. 8771 - Add service.type field to Metricbeat. 8965
- Support GET requests in Jolokia module. 8566 9226
- Add freebsd support for the uptime metricset. 9413
-
Add
host.os.name
field to add_host_metadata processor. 8948 9405 -
Add more TCP statuses to
socket_summary
metricset. 9430 - Remove experimental tag from ceph metricsets. 9708
- Add MS SQL module to X-Pack 9414
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