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Beats version 6.0.0-alpha1

Beats version 6.0.0-alpha1

Breaking changes

Affecting all Beats

Introduce beat version in the Elasticsearch index and mapping template 3527
Usage of field _type is now ignored and hardcoded to doc. 3757
Change vendor manager from glide to govendor. 3851
Rename error field to error.message. 3987
Change dashboards.* config options to setup.dashboards.*. 3921
Change outputs.elasticsearch.template.* to `setup.template.* 4080

Filebeat

Remove code to convert states from 1.x. 3767
Remove deprecated config options force_close_files and close_older. 3768
Change clean_removed behaviour to also remove states for files which cannot be found anymore under the same name. 3827
Remove document_type config option. Use fields instead. 4204
Move json_error under error.message and error.key. 4167

Packetbeat

Remove deprecated geoip. 3766
Replace waitstop command line argument by shutdown_timeout in configuration file. 3588

Winlogbeat

Remove metrics endpoint. Replaced by http endpoint in libbeat (see #3717). 3901

Bugfixes

Affecting all Beats

Add _id, _type, _index and _score fields in the generated index pattern. 3282

Filebeat

Fix the Mysql slowlog parsing of IP addresses. 4183
Fix issue that new prospector was not reloaded on conflict 4128

Heartbeat

Use IP type of elasticsearch for ip field. 3926

Metricbeat

Support common.Time in mapstriface.toTime() 3812
Fix MongoDB dbstats fields mapping. 4025
Fixing prometheus collector to aggregate metrics based on metric family. 4075
Fixing multiEventFetch error reporting when no events are returned 4153

Added

Affecting all Beats

Initialize a beats UUID from file on startup. 3615
Add new add_locale processor to export the local timezone with an event. 3902
Add http endpoint. 3717
Updated to Go 1.8.1. 4033
Add kubernetes processor 3888
Add support for include_labels and include_annotations in kubernetes processor 4043
Support new index_patterns field when loading templates for Elasticsearch >= 6.0 4056
Adding goimports support to make check and fmt 4114
Make kubernetes indexers/matchers pluggable 4151
Abstracting pod interface in kubernetes plugin to enable easier vendoring 4152

Filebeat

Restructure input.Event to be inline with outputs.Data 3823
Add base for supporting prospector level processors 3853
Add filebeat.config.path as replacement for config_dir. 4051
Add a recursive_glob.enabled setting to expand ** in patterns. 3980
Add Icinga module. 3904
Add ability to parse nginx logs exposing the X-Forwarded-For header instead of the remote address.

Heartbeat

Event format and field naming changes in Heartbeat and sample Dashboard. 4091

Metricbeat

Add experimental metricset perfmon to Windows module. 3758
Add memcached module with stats metricset. 3693
Add the process.cmdline.cache.enabled config option to the System Process Metricset. 3891
Add new MetricSet interfaces for developers (Closer, ReportingFetcher, and PushMetricSet). 3908
Add kubelet module 3916
Add dropwizard module 4022
Adding query APIs for metricsets and modules from metricbeat registry 4102
Fixing nil pointer on prometheus collector when http response is nil 4119
Add http module with json metricset. 4092
Add the option to the system module to include only the first top N processes by CPU and memory. 4127.
Add experimental Vsphere module. 4028
Add experimental Elasticsearch module. 3903
Add experimental Kibana module. 3895
Move elasticsearch metricset node_stats under node.stats namespace. 4142
Make IP port indexer constructor public 4434

Packetbeat

Add fields and fields_under_root to Packetbeat protocols configurations. 3518
Add list style Packetbeat protocols configurations. This change supports specifying multiple configurations of the same protocol analyzer. 3518

Winlogbeat

Deprecated

Affecting all Beats

Usage of field _type is deprecated. It should not be used in queries or dashboards. 3409

Packetbeat

Deprecate dictionary style protocols configuration. 3518

Winlogbeat

Known Issue

Filebeat

Prospector reloading only works properly with new files. 3546

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