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WARNING: Version 5.6 of Beats has passed its EOL date.

This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

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Beats version 5.5.0

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Beats version 5.5.0

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Breaking changes

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Affecting all Beats

  • Usage of field _type is now ignored and hardcoded to doc. 3757

Metricbeat - Change all system.cpu.*.pct metrics to be scaled by the number of CPU cores. This will make the CPU usage percentages from the system cpu metricset consistent with the system process metricset. The documentation for these metrics already stated that on multi-core systems the percentages could be greater than 100%. 4544

Bugfixes

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Affecting all Beats

  • Fix console output. 4045

Filebeat

  • Allow string characters in user agent patch version (NGINX and Apache) 4415

Metricbeat

  • Fix type of field haproxy.stat.check.health.last. 4407

Packetbeat

  • Fix packetbeat.interface options that contain underscores (e.g. with_vlans or bpf_filter). 4378
  • Enabled /proc/net/tcp6 scanning and fixed ip v6 parsing. 4442

Deprecated

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Filebeat

  • Deprecate document_type prospector config option as _type is removed in elasticsearch 6.0. Use fields instead. 4225

Winlogbeat

  • Deprecated metrics endpoint. It is superseded by a libbeat feature that can serve metrics on an HTTP endpoint. 4145
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