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Beats version 6.1.0
editBeats version 6.1.0
editBreaking changes
editAuditbeat
-
Changed
audit.file.path
to be a multi-field so that path is searchable. 5625
Metricbeat
Bugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Remove ID() from Runner interface 5153
-
Correctly send configured
Host
header to the remote server. 4842 - Change add_kubernetes_metadata to attempt detection of namespace. 5482
- Avoid double slash when join url and path 5517
- Fix console color output for Windows. 5611
- Fix logstash output debug message. https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/5799{5799]
- Fix isolation of modules when merging local and global field settings. 5795
- Report ephemeral ID and uptime in monitoring events on all platforms 6501
Filebeat
Metricbeat
- Change field type of http header from nested to object 5258
- Fix the fetching of process information when some data is missing under MacOS X. 5337
-
Change
MySQL active connections
visualization title toMySQL total connections
. 4812 -
Fix
ProcState
on Linux and FreeBSD when process names contain parentheses. 5775 -
Fix incorrect
Mem.Used
calculation under linux. 5775 -
Fix
open_file_descriptor_count
andmax_file_descriptor_count
lost in zookeeper module 5902 - Fix system process metricset for kernel processes. 5700
- Change kubernetes.node.cpu.allocatable.cores to float. 6130
Packetbeat
- Fix http status phrase parsing not allow spaces. 5312
- Fix http parse to allow to parse get request with space in the URI. 5495
-
Fix mysql SQL parser to trim
\r
from Windows ServerSELECT\r\n\t1
. 5572 - Fix corruption when parsing repeated headers in an HTTP request or response. 6325
- Fix panic when parsing partial AMQP messages. 6384
- Fix out of bounds access to slice in MongoDB parser. 6256
- Fix sniffer hanging on exit under Linux. 6535
- Fix bounds check error in http parser causing a panic. 6750
Winlogbeat
- Fix the registry file. It was not correctly storing event log names, and upon restart it would begin reading at the start of each event log. 5813
-
Fix config validation to allow
event_logs.processors
. [pull]6217[6217]
Added
editAffecting all Beats
- Support dashboard loading without Elasticseach 5653
-
Changed the hashbang used in the beat helper script from
/bin/bash
to/usr/bin/env bash
. 5051 -
Changed beat helper script to use
exec
when running the beat. 5051 - Fix reloader error message to only print on actual error 5066
- Add support for enabling TLS renegotiation. 4386
- Add Azure VM support for add_cloud_metadata processor 5355
-
Add
output.file.permission
config option. 4638 - Refactor add_kubernetes_metadata to support autodiscovery 5434
- Improve custom flag handling and CLI flags usage message. 5543
- Add number_of_routing_shards config set to 30 5570
- Set log level for kafka output. 5397
-
Move TCP UDP start up into
server.Start()
4903 - Update to Golang 1.9.2
Auditbeat
Filebeat
- Add PostgreSQL module with slowlog support. 4763
- Add Kafka log module. 4885
-
Add support for
/var/log/containers/
log path inadd_kubernetes_metadata
processor. 4981 - Remove error log from runnerfactory as error is returned by API. 5085
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Add experimental Docker
json-file
prospector . 5402 - Add experimental Docker autodiscover functionality. 5245
- Add option to convert the timestamps to UTC in the system module. 5647
- Add Logstash module support for main log and the slow log, support the plain text or structured JSON format 5481
Metricbeat
- Add graphite protocol metricbeat module. 4734
- Add http server metricset to support push metrics via http. 4770
- Make config object public for graphite and http server 4820
- Add system uptime metricset. 4848
-
Add experimental
queue
metricset to RabbitMQ module. 4788 - Add additional php-fpm pool status kpis for Metricbeat module 5287
- Add etcd module. 4970
- Add ip address of docker containers to event. 5379
- Add ceph osd tree information to Metricbeat 5498
- Add basic Logstash module. 5540
- Add dashboard for Windows service metricset. 5603
- Add experimental Docker autodiscover functionality. 5245
- Add Windows service metricset in the windows module. 5332
- Update gosigar to v0.6.0. 5775
Packetbeat