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Beats version 5.2.0
editBeats version 5.2.0
editBugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Fix overwriting explicit empty config sections. 2918
Filebeat
- Fix alignment issue were Filebeat compiled with Go 1.7.4 was crashing on 32 bits system. 3273
Metricbeat
Packetbeat
- Fix issue where some Cassandra visualizations were showing data from all protocols. 3314
Added
editAffecting all Beats
- Add support for passing list and dictionary settings via -E flag.
- Support for parsing list and dictionary setting from environment variables.
- Added new flags to import_dashboards (-cacert, -cert, -key, -insecure). 3139 3163
- The limit for the number of fields is increased via the mapping template. 3275
- Updated to Go 1.7.4. 3277
- Added a NOTICE file containing the notices and licenses of the dependencies. 3334.
Heartbeat
- First release, containing monitors for ICMP, TCP, and HTTP.
Filebeat
Metricbeat
- Kafka module broker matching enhancements. 3129
- Add a couchbase module with metricsets for node, cluster and bucket. 3081
- Export number of cores for CPU module. 3192
- Experimental Prometheus module. 3202
- Add system socket module that reports all TCP sockets. 3246
- Kafka consumer groups metricset. 3240
- Add jolokia module with dynamic jmx metricset. 3570
Winlogbeat