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Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.8.1
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Known issues
editElastic Defend and Elastic Agent CPU spike when connectivity to Elasticsearch and/or Logstash is lost.
Details
When the output server (Elasticsearch or Logstash) is unreachable, versions 8.8.0 & 8.8.1 of Elastic Defend (or Elastic Endpoint) and Elastic Agent may enter a state where they repeatedly communicate with each other indefinitely. This manifests as both processes consuming dramatically more CPU, constantly.
Versions 8.8.0 & 8.8.1 are affected on all operating systems. Elastic Agent does not manifest the behavior unless the Elastic Defend integration is enabled.
Impact
This issue was resolved in version 8.8.2. If you are using Elastic Agent with the Elastic Defend integration, please update to 8.8.2 or later.
Enhancements
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- Add Elastic Agent UI instructions for Universal Profile. #158936
- Fleet Server
Bug fixes
edit- Fleet
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- Include hidden data streams in package upgrade. #158654
- Elastic Agent