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editBreaking changes
editAffecting all Beats
- Update to Golang 1.12.4. 11782
Auditbeat
Filebeat
- Add read_buffer configuration option. 11739
Heartbeat
-
Removed the
add_host_metadata
andadd_cloud_metadata
processors from the default config. These don’t fit well with ECS for Heartbeat and were rarely used.
Journalbeat
Metricbeat
Packetbeat
Winlogbeat
Functionbeat
Bugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Ensure all beat commands respect configured settings. 10721
- Add missing fields and test cases for libbeat add_kubernetes_metadata processor. 11133, 11134
- decode_json_field: process objects and arrays only 11312
- decode_json_field: do not process arrays when flag not set. 11318
- Report faulting file when config reload fails. 11304
-
Fix a typo in libbeat/outputs/transport/client.go by updating
c.conn.LocalAddr()
toc.conn.RemoteAddr()
. 11242 - Management configuration backup file will now have a timestamps in their name. 11034
- [CM] Parse enrollment_token response correctly 11648
- Not hiding error in case of http failure using elastic fetcher 11604
- Escape BOM on JsonReader before trying to decode line 11661
- Fix matching of string arrays in contains condition. 11691
- Replace wmi queries with win32 api calls as they were consuming CPU resources 3249 and 11840
- Fix queue.spool.write.flush.events config type. 12080
- Fixed a memory leak when using the add_process_metadata processor under Windows. 12100
- Fix of docker json parser for missing "log" jsonkey in docker container’s log 11464
- Fixed Beat ID being reported by GET / API. 12180
- Add host.os.codename to fields.yml. 12261
-
Fix
@timestamp
being duplicated in events if@timestamp
is set in a processor (or by any code utilizingPutValue()
on abeat.Event
). - Fix leak in script processor when using Javascript functions in a processor chain. 12600
Auditbeat
- Process dataset: Fixed a memory leak under Windows. 12100
- Login dataset: Fix re-read of utmp files. 12028
- Package dataset: Fixed a crash inside librpm after Auditbeat has been running for a while. 12147 12168
- Fix formatting of config files on macOS and Windows. 12148
- Fix direction of incoming IPv6 sockets. 12248
- Package dataset: Auto-detect package directories. 12289
- System module: Start system module without host ID. 12373
Filebeat
- Add support for Cisco syslog format used by their switch. 10760
- Cover empty request data, url and version in Apache2 modulehttps://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/10730[10730]
- Fix registry entries not being cleaned due to race conditions. 10747
- Improve detection of file deletion on Windows. 10747
- Add missing Kubernetes metadata fields to Filebeat CoreDNS module, and fix a documentation error. 11591
-
Reduce memory usage if long lines are truncated to fit
max_bytes
limit. The line buffer is copied into a smaller buffer now. This allows the runtime to release unused memory earlier. 11524 - Fix memory leak in Filebeat pipeline acker. 12063
- Fix goroutine leak caused on initialization failures of log input. 12125
- Fix goroutine leak on non-explicit finalization of log input. 12164
- Require client_auth by default when ssl is enabled for tcp input 12333
- Fix timezone offset parsing in system/syslog. 12529
Heartbeat
Journalbeat
- Use backoff when no new events are found. 11861
Metricbeat
- Change diskio metrics retrieval method (only for Windows) from wmi query to DeviceIOControl function using the IOCTL_DISK_PERFORMANCE control code 11635
- Call GetMetricData api per region instead of per instance. 11820 11882
- Update documentation with cloudwatch:ListMetrics permission. 11987
- Check permissions in system socket metricset based on capabilities. 12039
- Get process information from sockets owned by current user when system socket metricset is run without privileges. 12039
- Avoid generating hints-based configuration with empty hosts when no exposed port is suitable for the hosts hint. 8264 12086
- Fixed a socket leak in the postgresql module under Windows when SSL is disabled on the server. 11393
- Change some field type from scaled_float to long in aws module. 11982
-
Fixed RabbitMQ
queue
metricset gathering whenconsumer_utilisation
is set empty at the metrics source 12089 - Fix direction of incoming IPv6 sockets. 12248
- Ignore prometheus metrics when their values are NaN or Inf. 12084 10849
- Require client_auth by default when ssl is enabled for module http metricset serverhttps://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/12333[12333]
-
The
elasticsearch/index_summary
metricset gracefully handles an empty Elasticsearch cluster whenxpack.enabled: true
is set. 12489 12487
Packetbeat
Winlogbeat
Functionbeat
- Fix function name reference for Kinesis streams in CloudFormation templates 11646
Added
editAffecting all Beats
- Add an option to append to existing logs rather than always rotate on start. 11953
-
Add
network
condition to processors for matching IP addresses against CIDRs. 10743 - Add if/then/else support to processors. 10744
-
Add
community_id
processor for computing network flow hashes. 10745 - Add output test to kafka output 10834
- Gracefully shut down on SIGHUP 10704
-
New processor:
copy_fields
. 11303 -
Add
error.message
to events whenfail_on_error
is set inrename
andcopy_fields
processors. 11303 -
New processor:
truncate_fields
. 11297 - Allow a beat to ship monitoring data directly to an Elasticsearch monitoring clsuter. 9260
- Updated go-seccomp-bpf library to v1.1.0 which updates syscall lists for Linux v5.0. NNNN
-
Add
add_observer_metadata
processor. 11394 -
Add
decode_csv_fields
processor. 11753 -
Add
convert
processor for converting data types of fields. 8124 11686 -
New
extract_array
processor. 11761 - Add number of goroutines to reported metrics. 12135
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Filebeat
- Add more info to message logged when a duplicated symlink file is found 10845
- Add option to configure docker input with paths 10687
- Add Netflow module to enrich flow events with geoip data. 10877
-
Set
event.category: network_traffic
for Suricata. 10882 - Allow custom default settings with autodiscover (for example, use of CRI paths for logs). 12193
- Allow to disable hints based autodiscover default behavior (fetching all logs). 12193
-
Change Suricata module pipeline to handle
destination.domain
being set if a reverse DNS processor is used. 10510 -
Add the
network.community_id
flow identifier to field to the IPTables, Suricata, and Zeek modules. 11005 - New Filebeat coredns module to ingest coredns logs. It supports both native coredns deployment and coredns deployment in kubernetes. 11200
- New module for Cisco ASA logs. 9200 11171
- Added support for Cisco ASA fields to the netflow input. 11201
- Configurable line terminator. 11015
- Add Filebeat envoyproxy module. 11700
-
Add apache2(httpd) log path (
/var/log/httpd
) to make apache2 module work out of the box on Redhat-family OSes. 11887 11888 - Add support to new MongoDB additional diagnostic information 11952
-
New module
panw
for Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS logs. 11999 - Add RabbitMQ module. 12032
-
Add new
container
input. 12162
Heartbeat
-
Enable
add_observer_metadata
processor in default config. 11394
Metricbeat
- Add AWS SQS metricset. 10684 10053
- Add AWS s3_request metricset. 10949 10055
- Add s3_daily_storage metricset. 10940 10055
-
Add
coredns
metricbeat module. 10585 - Add SSL support for Metricbeat HTTP server. 11482 11457
-
The
elasticsearch.index
metricset (withxpack.enabled: true
) now collectsrefresh.external_total_time_in_millis
fields from Elasticsearch. 11616 - Allow module configurations to have variants 9118
-
Add
timeseries.instance
field calculation. 10293 - Added new disk states and raid level to the system/raid metricset. 11613
-
Added
path_name
andstart_name
to service metricset on windows module 8364 11877 - Add check on object name in the counter path if the instance name is missing 6528 11878
- Add AWS cloudwatch metricset. 11798 11734
-
Add
regions
in aws module config to specify target regions for querying cloudwatch metrics. 11932 11956 -
Keep
etcd
followers members from reportingleader
metricset events 12004 -
Add validation for elasticsearch and kibana modules' metricsets when
xpack.enabled
is set totrue
. 12386
Functionbeat
- Add new options to configure roles and VPC. 11779
Winlogbeat
-
Add support for reading from
.evtx
files. 4450
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