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Beats version 1.0.0-rc1

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Beats version 1.0.0-rc1

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Breaking changes

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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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