Beats version 6.6.0
editBeats version 6.6.0
editBreaking changes
editAffecting all Beats
- Dissect syntax change, use * instead of ? when working with field reference. 8054
Filebeat
- Allow beats to blacklist certain part of the configuration while using Central Management. 9099
Metricbeat
- Allow beats to blacklist certain part of the configuration while using Central Management. 9099
Functionbeat
Bugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Fix autodiscover configurations stopping when metadata is missing. 8851
- Refresh host metadata in add_host_metadata. 9359
- When collecting swap metrics for beats telemetry or system metricbeat module handle cases of free swap being bigger than total swap by assuming no swap is being used. 6271 9383
- Ignore non index fields in default_field for Elasticsearch. 9549
- Update Golang to 1.10.6. 9563
- Update Kibana index pattern attributes for objects that are disabled. 9644
- Enforce validation for the Central Management access token. 9621
- Fix registry handle leak on Windows (https://github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo/pull/33). 9920
- Gracefully handle TLS options when enrolling a Beat. 9129
- Allow to unenroll a Beat from the UI. 9452
- The backing off now implements jitter to better distribute the load. 10172
- Fix config appender registration. 9873
- Fix TLS certificate DoS vulnerability. 10304
Filebeat
- Fix improperly set config for CRI Flag in Docker Input 8899
-
Just enabling the
elasticsearch
fileset and starting Filebeat no longer causes an error. 8891 - Fix macOS default log path for elasticsearch module based on homebrew paths. {pul}8939[8939]
- Support IPv6 addresses with zone id in IIS ingest pipeline. 9836 error log: 9869 access log: 10030
- Support haproxy log lines without captured headers. 9463 9958
Heartbeat
- Heartbeat now always downloads the entire body of HTTP endpoints, even if no checks against the body content are declared. This fixes an issue where timing metrics would be incorrect in scenarios where the body wasn’t used since the connection would be closed soon after the headers were sent, but before the entire body was. 8894
Metricbeat
- Add missing namespace field in http server metricset 7890
- Fix issue with not collecting Elasticsearch cross-cluster replication stats correctly. 9179
-
The
node.name
field in theelasticsearch/node
metricset now correctly reports the Elasticsarch node name. Previously this field was incorrectly reporting the node ID instead. 9209 - Fix panics in vsphere module when certain values where not returned by the API. 9784
- Fix pod UID metadata enrichment in Kubernetes module. 10081
Packetbeat
Added
editAffecting all Beats
- Unify dashboard exporter tools. 9097
- Dissect will now flag event on parsing error. 8751
-
Added the
redirect_stderr
option that allows panics to be logged to log files. 8430 - Add cache.ttl to add_host_metadata. 9359
- Add support for index lifecycle management (beta). 7963
- Always include Pod UID as part of Pod metadata. {pull]9517[9517]
- Release Jolokia autodiscover as GA. 9706
Auditbeat
- Add system module. 9546
Filebeat
- Added detect_null_bytes
selector to detect null bytes from a io.reader. 9210
- Added syslog_host
variable to HAProxy module to allow syslog listener to bind to configured host. 9366
- Allow to force CRI format parsing for better performance 8424
- Add event.dataset to module events. 9457
- Add field log.source.address and log.file.path to replace source. 9435
- Add support for multi-core thread_id in postgresql module 9156 9482
- Added netflow input type that supports NetFlow v1, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9 and IPFIX. 9399
Journalbeat
Metricbeat
-
Collect custom cluster
display_name
inelasticsearch/cluster_stats
metricset. 8445 - Test etcd module with etcd 3.3. 9068
-
All
elasticsearch
metricsets now have module-levelcluster.id
andcluster.name
fields. 8770 8771 9164 9165 9166 9168 -
All
elasticsearch
node-level metricsets now havenode.id
andnode.name
fields. 9168 9209 - Add settings to disable docker and cgroup cpu metrics per core. 9187 9194 9589
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The
elasticsearch/node
metricset now reports the Elasticsearch cluster UUID. 8771 - Support GET requests in Jolokia module. 8566 9226
- Add freebsd support for the uptime metricset. 9413
-
Add
host.os.name
field to add_host_metadata processor. 8948 9405 -
Add field
event.dataset
which is{module}.{metricset)
. 9393
Deprecated
editFilebeat - Deprecate field source. Will be replaced by log.source.address and log.file.path in 7.0. 9435
Metricbeat
-
Deprecate field
metricset.rtt
. Replaced byevent.duration
which is in nano instead of micro seconds. 9393
Packetbeat
- Support new TLS version negotiation introduced in TLS 1.3. 8647.