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Beats version 5.1.1
editBeats version 5.1.1
editBreaking changes
editMetricbeat
- Change data structure of experimental haproxy module. 3003
Filebeat
-
If a file is falling under
ignore_older
during startup, offset is now set to end of file instead of 0. With the previous logic the whole file was sent in case a line was added and it was inconsistent with files which were harvested previously. 2907 -
tail_files
is now only applied on the first scan and not for all new files. 2932
Bugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Fix empty benign errors logged by processor actions. 3046
Metricbeat
- Calculate the fsstat values per mounting point, and not filesystem. 2777
Added
editAffecting all Beats
Metricbeat
- Add experimental Docker module. Provided by Ingensi and @douaejeouit based on dockbeat.
- Add a sample Redis Kibana dashboard. 2916
- Add support for MongoDB 3.4 and WiredTiger metrics. 2999
- Add experimental kafka module with partition metricset. 2969
- Add raw config option for mysql/status metricset. 3001
- Add command fields for mysql/status metricset. 3251
Filebeat
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Add command line option
-once
to run Filebeat only once and then close. 2456 - Only load matching states into prospector to improve state handling 2840
- Reset all states ttl on startup to make sure it is overwritten by new config 2840
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Persist all states for files which fall under
ignore_older
to have consistent behaviour 2859 - Improve shutdown behaviour with large number of files. 3035
Winlogbeat
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Add
event_logs.batch_read_size
configuration option. 2641