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Beats version 5.1.1

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Beats version 5.1.1

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Breaking changes

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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

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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

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  • 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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