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Beats version 5.6.0

Beats version 5.6.0

Breaking changes

Affecting all Beats

The _all.norms setting in the Elasticsearch template is no longer disabled. This increases the storage size with one byte per document, but allows for a better upgrade experience to 6.0. 4901

Bugfixes

Filebeat

Fix issue where the fileset.module could have the wrong value. 4761

Packetbeat

Update flow timestamp on each packet being received. 4895

Metricbeat

Fix a debug statement that said a module wrapper had stopped when it hadn’t. 4264
Use MemAvailable value from /proc/meminfo on Linux 3.14. 4316
Fix panic when events were dropped by filters. 4327

Added

Affecting all Beats

Add option to the import_dashboards script to load the dashboards via Kibana API. 4682

Filebeat

Add support for loading Xpack Machine Learning configurations from the modules, and added sample configurations for the Nginx module. 4506 4609
Add ability to parse nginx logs exposing the X-Forwarded-For header instead of the remote address. 4351

Metricbeat

Add filesystem.ignore_types to system module for ignoring filesystem types. 4685

Deprecated

Affecting all Beats

Loading more than one output is deprecated and will be removed in 6.0. 4907

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