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Beats version 5.1.1

Beats version 5.1.1

Breaking changes

Metricbeat

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

Affecting all Beats

Fix empty benign errors logged by processor actions. 3046

Metricbeat

Calculate the fsstat values per mounting point, and not filesystem. 2777

Added

Affecting all Beats

Add add_cloud_metadata processor for collecting cloud provider metadata. 2728
Added decode_json_fields processor for decoding fields containing JSON strings. 2605
Add Tencent Cloud provider for add_cloud_metadata processor. 4023
Add Alibaba Cloud provider for add_cloud_metadata processor. 4111

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

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
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

Add event_logs.batch_read_size configuration option. 2641

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