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Beats version 6.2.0
editBeats version 6.2.0
editBugfixes
editAuditbeat
- Fixed an issue where the proctitle value was being truncated. 6080
- Fixed an issue where values were incorrectly interpreted as hex data. 6080
-
Fixed parsing of the
key
value when multiple keys are present. 6080 - Fix possible resource leak if file_integrity module is used with config reloading on Windows or Linux. 6198
Filebeat
-
Fix variable name for
convert_timezone
in the system module. 5936
Metricbeat
-
Fix error
datastore '*' not found
in Vsphere module. 4879 -
Fix error
NotAuthenticated
in Vsphere module. 4673 - Fix mongodb session consistency mode to allow command execution on secondary nodes. 4689
-
Fix kubernetes
state_pod
status.phase
so that the active phase is returned instead ofunknown
. 5980 - Fix error collecting network_names in Vsphere module. 5962
- Fix process cgroup memory metrics for memsw, kmem, and kmem_tcp. 6033
- Fix kafka OffsetFetch request missing topic and partition parameters. 5880
Packetbeat
-
Fix mysql SQL parser to trim
\r
from Windows ServerSELECT\r\n\t1
. 5572
Added
editAffecting all Beats
- Adding a local keystore to allow user to obfuscate password 5687
- Add autodiscover for kubernetes. 6055
- Add Beats metrics reporting to Xpack. 3422
- Update the command line library cobra and add support for zsh completion 5761
- Update to Golang 1.9.2
-
Moved
ip_port
indexer foradd_kubernetes_metadata
to all beats. 5707 -
ip_port
indexer now index both IP and IP:port pairs. 5721 - Add the ability to write structured logs. 5901
-
Use structured logging for the metrics that are periodically logged via the
logging.metrics
feature. 5915 - Improve Elasticsearch output metrics to count number of dropped and duplicate (if event ID is given) events. 5811
- Add the ability for the add_docker_metadata process to enrich based on process ID. 6100
-
The
add_docker_metadata
andadd_kubernetes_metadata
processors are now GA, instead of Beta. 6105 - Update go-ucfg library to support top level key reference and cyclic key reference for the keystore 6098
Auditbeat
Filebeat
Metricbeat
- Add ceph osd_df to metricbeat 5606
- Add field network_names of hosts and virtual machines. 5646
- Add experimental system/raid metricset. 5642
- Add a dashboard for the Nginx module. 5991
- Add experimental mongodb/collstats metricset. 5852
- Update the MySQL dashboard to use the Time Series Visual Builder. 5996
- Add experimental uwsgi module. 6006
- Docker and Kubernetes modules are now GA, instead of Beta. 6105
- Support haproxy stats gathering using http (additionally to tcp socket). 5819
- Support to optionally de dot keys in http/json metricset to prevent collisions. 5957
Packetbeat
-
Configure good defaults for
add_kubernetes_metadata
. 5707