Affecting all Beats
Auditbeat
Filebeat
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
-
Adjust Winlogbeat fields to map to ECS. 10333
Functionbeat
Affecting all Beats
-
Ensure all beat commands respect configured settings. 10721
-
Add missing fields and test cases for libbeat add_kubernetes_metadata processor. 11133, 11134
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decode_json_field: process objects and arrays only 11312
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decode_json_field: do not process arrays when flag not set. 11318
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Report faulting file when config reload fails. 1130411304
-
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
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Relax validation of the X-Pack license UID value. 11640
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Fix a parsing error with the X-Pack license check on 32-bit system. 11650
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Escape BOM on JsonReader before trying to decode line 11661
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Fix ILM policy always being overwritten. 11671
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Fix template always being overwritten. 11671
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Fix matching of string arrays in contains condition. 11691
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Fix formatting for
event.duration
, "human readable" was not working well for this. 11675 -
Fix initialization of the TCP input logger. 11605
-
Fix flaky service_integration_windows_test test by introducing a confidence factor and enriching the error message with more service details. 8880 and 7977
-
Replace wmi queries with win32 api calls as they were consuming CPU resources 3249 and 11840
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Fix queue.spool.write.flush.events config type. 12080
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Fixed a memory leak when using the add_process_metadata processor under Windows. 12100
-
Fixed Beat ID being reported by GET / API. 12180
Auditbeat
-
Package dataset: dlopen versioned librpm shared objects. 11565
-
Package dataset: Nullify Librpm’s rpmsqEnable. 11628
-
Package dataset: Log error when Homebrew is not installed. 11667
-
Process dataset: Fixed a memory leak under Windows. 12100
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Login dataset: Fix re-read of utmp files. 12028
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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
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/pull/10730[10730]
-
Fix registry entries not being cleaned due to race conditions. 10747
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Improve detection of file deletion on Windows. 10747
-
Fix goroutine leak happening when harvesters are dynamically stopped. 11263
-
Fix
add_docker_metadata
source matching, usinglog.file.path
field now. 11577 -
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
Heartbeat
Journalbeat
-
Use backoff when no new events are found. 11861
Metricbeat
-
Add _bucket to histogram metrics in Prometheus Collector 11578
-
Prevent the docker/memory metricset from processing invalid events before container start 11676
-
Change
add_cloud_metadata
processor to not overwritecloud
field when it already exist in the event. 11612 11305 -
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
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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
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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
Packetbeat
Winlogbeat
Functionbeat
-
Fix function name reference for Kinesis streams in CloudFormation templates 11646
Affecting 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
-
Add
proxy_disable
output flag to explicitly ignore proxy environment variables. 11713 12243
Auditbeat
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 -
Add configuration knob for auto-discover hints to control whether log harvesting is enabled for the pod/container. 10811 10911
-
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
-
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
palo_alto
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
Journalbeat
Metricbeat
-
Add
coredns
metricbeat module. 10585 -
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
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 overview dashboard to Consul module 10665
Packetbeat
Functionbeat
-
New options to configure roles and VPC. 11779
Winlogbeat
-
Add support for reading from .evtx files. 4450