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Beats version 7.4.0
editBeats version 7.4.0
editBreaking changes
editAffecting all Beats
Auditbeat
- Socket dataset: New implementation using Kprobes for finer-grained monitoring and UDP support. 13058
Filebeat
Metricbeat
- Add new Dashboard for PostgreSQL database stats 13187
- Add new dashboard for CouchDB database 13198
- Add new dashboard for Ceph cluster stats 13216
- Add new dashboard for Aerospike database stats 13217
- Add new dashboard for Couchbase cluster stats 13212
- Add new dashboard for Prometheus server stats 13126
- Add statistic option into cloudwatch metricset. If there is no statistic method specified, default is to collect Average, Sum, Maximum, Minimum and SampleCount. 12370 12840
- Fix rds metricset dashboard. 13721
Functionbeat
- Separate management and functions in Functionbeat. 12939
Bugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- ILM: Use GET instead of HEAD when checking for alias to expose detailed error message. 12886
-
Fix unexpected stops on docker autodiscover when a container is restarted before
cleanup_timeout
. 12962 13127 - Fix some incorrect types and formats in field.yml files. 13188
- Load DLLs only from Windows system directory. 13234 13384
- Fix mapping for kubernetes.labels and kubernetes.annotations in add_kubernetes_metadata. 12638 13226
- Fix case insensitive regular expressions not working correctly. 13250
Auditbeat
- Host dataset: Export Host fields to gob encoder. 12940
Filebeat
- Fix filebeat autodiscover fileset hint for container input. 13296
- Fix incorrect references to index patterns in AWS and CoreDNS dashboards. 13303
- Fix timezone parsing of system module ingest pipelines. 13308
- Fix timezone parsing of elasticsearch module ingest pipelines. 13367
- Change iis url path grok pattern from URIPATH to NOTSPACE. 12710 13225 7951 13378
- Add timezone information to apache error fileset. 12772 13304
- Fix timezone parsing of nginx module ingest pipelines. 13369
- Allow path variables to be used in files loaded from modules.d. 13184
- Fix incorrect field references in envoyproxy dashboard 13420 13421
Heartbeat
- Fix integer comparison on JSON responses. 13348
Metricbeat
- Ramdisk is not filtered out when collecting disk performance counters in diskio metricset 12814 12829
- Fix redis key metricset dashboard references to index pattern. 13303
- Check if fields in DBInstance is nil in rds metricset. 13294 13037
- Fix silent failures in kafka and prometheus module. 13353 13252
- Fix module-level fields in Kubernetes metricsets. 13433 13544
- Fix panic in Redis Key metricset when collecting information from a removed key. 13426
- In the elasticsearch/node_stats metricset, if xpack is enabled, make parsing of ES node load average optional as ES on Windows doesn’t report load average. 12866
- Print errors that were being omitted in vSphere metricsets. 12816
- Fix issue with aws cloudwatch module where dimensions and/or namespaces that contain space are not being parsed correctly 13389
- Fix reporting empty events in cloudwatch metricset. 13458
- Fix data race affecting config validation at startup. 13005
Packetbeat
- Fix parsing the extended RCODE in the DNS parser. 12805
Functionbeat
Added
editAffecting all Beats
-
Add support for reading the
network.iana_number
field by default to the community_id processor. 12701 - Add a check so alias creation explicitely fails if there is an index with the same name. 13070
- Update kubernetes watcher to use official client-go libraries. 13051
-
Add support for unix epoch time values in the
timestamp
processor. 13319 - add_host_metadata is now GA. 13148
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Add an
ignore_missing
configuration option thedrop_fields
processor. 13318 -
Add
registered_domain
processor for deriving the registered domain from a given FQDN. 13326 - Add support for RFC3339 time zone offsets in JSON output. 13227
-
Added
monitoring.cluster_uuid
setting to associate Beat data with specified ES cluster in Stack Monitoring UI. 13182
Filebeat
- Add netflow dashboards based on Logstash netflow. 12857
- Parse more fields from Elasticsearch slowlogs. 11939
- Update module pipelines to enrich events with autonomous system fields. 13036
- Add module for ingesting IBM MQ logs. 8782
- Add S3 input to retrieve logs from AWS S3 buckets. 12640 12582
- Add aws module s3access metricset. 13170 12880
- Update Suricata module to populate ECS DNS fields and handle EVE DNS version 2. 13320 13329
- Update PAN-OS fileset to use the ECS NAT fields. 13320 13330
- Add fields to the Zeek DNS fileset for ECS DNS. 13320 13324
- Add container image in Kubernetes metadata 13356 12688
- Add module for ingesting Cisco FTD logs over syslog. 13286
Heartbeat
-
Record HTTP body metadata and optionally contents in
http.response.body.*
fields. 13022
Metricbeat
- Add Kubernetes proxy dashboard to Kubernetes module 12734
- Add Kubernetes controller manager dashboard to Kubernetes module 12744
- Add metrics to kubernetes apiserver metricset. 12922
- Add Kubernetes scheduler dashboard to Kubernetes module 12749
- Collect client provided name for rabbitmq connection. 12851 12852
- Add support to load default aws config file to get credentials. 12727 12708
- Add statistic option into cloudwatch metricset. 12370 12840
- Add support for kubernetes cronjobs 13001
- Add cgroup memory stats to docker/memory metricset 12916
- Add AWS elb metricset. 12952 11701
- Add AWS ebs metricset. 13167 11699
-
Add
metricset.period
field with the configured fetching period. 13242 12616 - Add rate metrics for ec2 metricset. 13203
- Add Performance metricset to Oracle module 12547
- Use DefaultMetaGeneratorConfig in MetadataEnrichers to initialize configurations 13414
- Add module for statsd. 13109
Packetbeat
Functionbeat
Winlogbeat
- Add support for event ID 4634 and 4647 to the Security module. 12906
-
Add
network.community_id
to Sysmon network events (event ID 3). 13034 -
Add
event.module
to Winlogbeat modules. 13047 -
Add
event.category: process
andevent.type: process_start/process_end
to Sysmon process events (event ID 1 and 5). 13047 - Add support for event ID 4672 to the Security module. 12975
- Add support for event ID 22 (DNS query) to the Sysmon module. 12960
- Add support for event ID 4634 and 4647 to the Security module. 12906
-
Add
network.community_id
to Sysmon network events (event ID 3). 13034 -
Add
event.module
to Winlogbeat modules. 13047 -
Add
event.category: process
andevent.type: process_start/process_end
to Sysmon process events (event ID 1 and 5). 13047 - Add support for event ID 4672 to the Security module. 12975
- Add support for event ID 22 (DNS query) to the Sysmon module. 12960
- Add certain winlog.event_data.* fields to the index template. 13700 13704
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