Beats highlights
editBeats highlights
editThis list summarizes the most important enhancements in Beats. For the complete list, go to Beats release highlights.
Azure Kubernetes and container monitoring
editWe’ve enhanced the Metricbeat Azure module with three new metricsets
for monitoring Microsoft Azure container services:
container_instance
,
container_registry
, and
container_service
.
These metricsets collect metrics from the following services:
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Container Registry
Each metricset comes with a dashboard that makes it easy to get started monitoring Azure containers.
AWS VPCs, Lambdas, and DynamoDB monitoring
editIn the Metricbeat AWS module, we’ve added support for monitoring mission-critical services in the Amazon VPC ecosystem:
-
The
natgateway
metricset enables you to monitor NAT gateway services to gain a better perspective on how web applications or services are performing. -
The
transitgateway
metricset collects metrics sent to CloudWatch by VPC when requests are flowing through the gateway. -
The
vpn
metricset enables you to monitor VPN tunnels. VPN metric data is automatically sent to CloudWatch as it becomes available.
Also new in this release, the
lambda
metricset monitors
Lambda functions across multiple accounts and regions. The metricset collects
metrics such as total invocations, errors, duration, throttles, dead-letter queue
errors, and iterator age for stream-based invocations. You can use these metrics
to configure alerts to respond to events such as changes in performance and
error rates.
We’ve also added the
dynamodb
metricset to
monitor AWS DynamoDB instances. This metricset collects metrics, such as request
latency, transaction conflicts, provisioned and consumed capacity, and many
others.
For Amazon Aurora users, we’ve enhanced the
rds
metricset to collect
metrics about your Aurora instances.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Pub/Sub and Load Balancer monitoring
editWe’ve enhanced the Metricbeat Google Cloud Platform module with support for monitoring additional services:
-
The
pubsub
metricset connects to the Stackdriver API and collects metrics for topics, subscriptions, and snapshots used by a specified account. -
The
loadbalancing
metricset captures load balancing performance metrics for HTTP(S), TCP, and UDP applications.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) monitoring
editWe continue to expand coverage of container platforms by adding support for Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
The new Metricbeat
Cloudfoundry module
connects to the Cloud Foundry API and pulls container, counter, and value
metrics from it. These metrics are stored in cloudfoundry.container
,
cloudfoundry.counter
and cloudfoundry.value
metricsets.
In Filebeat, the new
cloudfoundry
input collects
http access logs, container logs, and error logs from Cloud Foundry.
To learn how to run Beats on Cloud Foundry, see:
IBM MQ monitoring
editPrior to this release, we offered support in Filebeat for collecting and parsing queue manager error logs from IBM MQ.
In this release, we’ve added the missing piece: metrics. The new Metricbeat IBM MQ module pulls status information for the Queue Manager, which is responsible for maintaining queues and ensuring that messages in the queues reach their destination.
Redis Enterprise monitoring
editIn addition to our existing Redis module, which focuses on the open source version of the database, we’ve added the new Metricbeat Redis Enterprise module to monitor features such as nodes and proxies in a Redis cluster.
Istio monitoring
editFor Istio users, we’ve introduced the Metricbeat Istio module to collect metrics about service traffic (in, out, and within a service mesh), control-plane metrics for Istio Pilot, Galley, Mixer components, and much more.
ECS field improvements in Filebeat
editThe Elastic Common Schema (ECS) defines a common set of fields to be used when storing event data in Elasticsearch.
In 7.7, we’ve improved ECS field mappings in numerous Filebeat modules, making it easier for you to analyze, visualize, and correlate data across events. For a list of affected modules, see the Release Notes for 7.7.0.