Metricbeat
-
Change data structure of experimental haproxy module. 3003
Filebeat
-
If a file is falling under
ignore_older
during startup, offset is now set to end of file instead of 0. With the previous logic the whole file was sent in case a line was added and it was inconsistent with files which were harvested previously. 2907 -
tail_files
is now only applied on the first scan and not for all new files. 2932
Affecting all Beats
-
Fix empty benign errors logged by processor actions. 3046
Metricbeat
-
Calculate the fsstat values per mounting point, and not filesystem. 2777
Affecting all Beats
Metricbeat
-
Add experimental Docker module. Provided by Ingensi and @douaejeouit based on dockbeat.
-
Add a sample Redis Kibana dashboard. 2916
-
Add support for MongoDB 3.4 and WiredTiger metrics. 2999
-
Add experimental kafka module with partition metricset. 2969
-
Add raw config option for mysql/status metricset. 3001
Filebeat
-
Add command line option
-once
to run Filebeat only once and then close. 2456 -
Only load matching states into prospector to improve state handling 2840
-
Reset all states ttl on startup to make sure it is overwritten by new config 2840
-
Persist all states for files which fall under
ignore_older
to have consistent behaviour 2859 -
Improve shutdown behaviour with large number of files. 3035
Winlogbeat
-
Add
event_logs.batch_read_size
configuration option. 2641
Version 5.1.0 doesn’t exist because, for a short period of time, the Elastic Yum and Apt repositories included unreleased binaries labeled 5.1.0. To avoid confusion and upgrade issues for the people that have installed these without realizing, we decided to skip the 5.1.0 version and release 5.1.1 instead.
Metricbeat
-
Fix
system.process.start_time
on Windows. 2848 -
Fix
system.process.ppid
on Windows. 2860 -
Fix system process metricset for Windows XP and 2003.
cmdline
will be unavailable. 1704 -
Fix access denied issues in system process metricset by enabling SeDebugPrivilege on Windows. 1897
-
Fix system diskio metricset for Windows XP and 2003. 2885
Packetbeat
-
Fix 'index out of bounds' bug in Packetbeat DNS protocol plugin. 2872
Filebeat
-
Fix registry cleanup issue when files falling under ignore_older after restart. 2818
The list below covers the changes between 5.0.0-rc1 and 5.0.0 GA only.
Affecting all Beats
Metricbeat
-
Fix high CPU usage on macOS when encountering processes with long command lines. 2747
-
Fix high value of
system.memory.actual.free
andsystem.memory.actual.used
. 2653 -
Change several
OpenProcess
calls on Windows to request the lowest possible access provilege. 1897 -
Fix system.memory.actual.free high value on Windows. 2653
Filebeat
-
Fix issue when clean_removed and clean_inactive were used together that states were not directly removed from the registry.
-
Fix issue where upgrading a 1.x registry file resulted in duplicate state entries. 2792
Affecting all Beats
-
A dynamic mapping rule is added to the default Elasticsearch template to treat strings as keywords by default. 2688
Affecting all Beats
-
Make sure Beats sent always float values when they are defined as float by sending 5.00000 instead of 5. 2627
-
Fix ignoring all fields from drop_fields in case the first field is unknown. 2685
-
Fix dynamic configuration int/uint to float type conversion. 2698
-
Fix primitive types conversion if values are read from environment variables. 2698
Metricbeat
-
Fix default configuration file on Windows to not enabled the
load
metricset. 2632
Packetbeat
-
Fix the
bpf_filter
setting. 2660
Filebeat
-
Fix input buffer on encoding problem. 2416
Affecting all Beats
-
Change Elasticsearch output index configuration to be based on format strings. If index has been configured, no date will be appended anymore to the index name. 2119
-
Replace
output.kafka.use_type
byoutput.kafka.topic
accepting a format string. 2188 -
If the path specified by the
-c
flag is not absolute and-path.config
is not specified, it is considered relative to the current working directory. 2245 -
rename
tls
configurations section tossl
. 2330 -
rename
certificate_key
configuration tokey
. 2330 -
replace
tls.insecure
withssl.verification_mode
setting. 2330 -
replace
tls.min/max_version
withssl.supported_protocols
setting requiring full protocol name. 2330
Metricbeat
-
Change field type system.process.cpu.start_time from keyword to date. 1565
-
redis/info metricset fields were renamed up according to the naming conventions.
Packetbeat
Filebeat
-
Set close_inactive default to 5 minutes (was 1 hour before)
-
Set clean_removed and close_removed to true by default
Affecting all Beats
-
Fix logstash output handles error twice when asynchronous sending fails. 2441
-
Fix Elasticsearch structured error response parsing error. 2229
-
Fixed the run script to allow the overriding of the configuration file. 2171
-
Fix logstash output crash if no hosts are configured. 2325
-
Fix array value support in -E CLI flag. 2521
-
Fix merging array values if -c CLI flag is used multiple times. 2521
-
Fix beats failing to start due to invalid duplicate key error in configuration file. 2521
-
Fix panic on non writable logging directory. 2571
Metricbeat
-
Fix module filters to work properly with drop_event filter. 2249
Packetbeat
Filebeat
Winlogbeat
-
Fix corrupt registry file that occurs on power loss by disabling file write caching. 2313
Affecting all Beats
-
Add script to generate the Kibana index-pattern from fields.yml. 2122
-
Enhance Redis output key selection based on format string. 2169
-
Configurable Redis
keys
using filters and format strings. 2169 -
Add format string support to
output.kafka.topic
. 2188 -
Add
output.kafka.topics
for more advanced kafka topic selection per event. 2188 -
Add support for Kafka 0.10. 2190
-
Add SASL/PLAIN authentication support to kafka output. 2190
-
Make Kafka metadata update configurable. 2190
-
Add Kafka version setting (optional) enabling kafka broker version support. 2190
-
Add Kafka message timestamp if at least version 0.10 is configured. 2190
-
Add configurable Kafka event key setting. 2284
-
Add settings for configuring the kafka partitioning strategy. 2284
-
Add partitioner settings
reachable_only
to ignore partitions not reachable by network. 2284 -
Enhance contains condition to work on fields that are arrays of strings. 2237
-
Lookup the configuration file relative to the
-path.config
CLI flag. 2245 -
Re-write import_dashboards.sh in Golang. 2155
-
Update to Go 1.7. 2306
-
Log total non-zero internal metrics on shutdown. 2349
-
Add support for encrypted private key files by introducing
ssl.key_passphrase
setting. 2330 -
Add experimental symlink support with
symlinks
config 2478 -
Improve validation of registry file on startup.
Metricbeat
-
Use the new scaled_float Elasticsearch type for the percentage values. 2156
-
Add experimental cgroup metrics to the system/process MetricSet. 2184
-
Added a PostgreSQL module. 2253
-
Improve mapping by converting half_float to scaled_float and integers to long. 2430
-
Add experimental haproxy module. 2384
-
Add Kibana dashboard for cgroups data 2555
Packetbeat
Filebeat
Affecting all Beats
-
Rename the
filters
section toprocessors
. 1944 -
Introduce the condition with
when
in the processor configuration. 1949 -
The Elasticsearch template is now loaded by default. 1993
-
The Redis output
index
setting is renamed tokey
.index
still works but it’s deprecated. 2077 -
The undocumented file output
index
setting was removed. Usefilename
instead. 2077
Metricbeat
Packetbeat
-
Set
enabled
` inpacketbeat.protocols.icmp
configuration totrue
by default. 1988
Affecting all Beats
-
Fix sync publisher
PublishEvents
return value if client is closed concurrently. 2046
Metricbeat
-
Do not send zero values when no value was present in the source. 1972
Filebeat
Winlogbeat
-
Fix potential data loss between Winlogbeat restarts, reporting unpublished lines as published. 2041
Affecting all Beats
-
Periodically log internal metrics. 1955
-
Add enabled setting to all output modules. 1987
-
Command line flag
-c
can be used multiple times. 1985 -
Add OR/AND/NOT to the condition associated with the processors. 1983
-
Add
-E
CLI flag for overwriting single config options via command line. 1986 -
Choose the mapping template file based on the Elasticsearch version. 1993
-
Check stdout being available when console output is configured. 2035
Metricbeat
-
Add pgid field to process information. https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/ 2021[2021]
Packetbeat
Filebeat
Affecting all Beats
-
The topology_expire option of the Elasticserach output was removed. 1907
Filebeat
-
Stop following symlink. Symlinks are now ignored: 1686
Affecting all Beats
-
Reset backoff factor on partial ACK. 1803
-
Fix beats load balancer deadlock if max_retries: -1 or publish_async is enabled in filebeat. 1829
-
Fix logstash output with pipelining mode enabled not reconnecting. 1876
-
Empty configuration sections become merge-able with variables containing full path. 1900
-
Fix error message about required fields missing not printing the missing field name. 1900
Metricbeat
-
Fix the CPU values returned for each core. 1863
Packetbeat
Winlogbeat
-
Fix issue with rendering forwarded event log records. 1891
Affecting all Beats
-
All configuration settings under
shipper:
are moved to be top level configuration settings. I.e.shipper.name:
becomesname:
in the configuration file. 1570
Topbeat
-
Topbeat is replaced by Metricbeat.
Filebeat
-
The state for files which fall under ignore_older is not stored anymore. This has the consequence, that if a file which fell under ignore_older is updated, the whole file will be crawled.
Affecting all Beats
-
Add conditions to generic filtering. 1623
Metricbeat
-
First public release, containing the following modules: apache, mysql, nginx, redis, system, and zookeeper.
Filebeat
-
The registry format was changed to an array instead of dict. The migration to the new format will happen automatically at the first startup. 1703
Affecting all Beats
-
The support for doing GeoIP lookups is deprecated and will be removed in version 6.0. 1601
Affecting all Beats
Packetbeat
Filebeat
-
Default location for the registry file was changed to be
data/registry
from the binary directory, rather than.filebeat
in the current working directory. This affects installations for zip/tar.gz/source, the location for DEB and RPM packages stays the same. 1373
Affecting all Beats
-
Drain response buffers when pipelining is used by Redis output. 1353
-
Unterminated environment variable expressions in config files will now cause an error 1389
-
Fix issue with the automatic template loading when Elasticsearch is not available on Beat start. 1321
-
Fix bug affecting -cpuprofile, -memprofile, and -httpprof CLI flags 1415
-
Fix race when multiple outputs access the same event with logstash output manipulating event 1410 1428
-
Seed random number generator using crypto.rand package. https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/1503{1503]
-
Fix beats hanging in -configtest 1213
-
Fix kafka log message output 1516
Filebeat
-
Improvements in registrar dealing with file rotation. 1281
-
Fix issue with JSON decoding where
@timestamp
ortype
keys with the wrong type could cause Filebeat to crash. 1378 -
Fix issue with JSON decoding where values having
null
as values could crash Filebeat. 1466 -
Multiline reader normalizing newline to use
\n
. 1552
Winlogbeat
Affecting all Beats
-
Add support for TLS to Redis output. 1353
-
Add SOCKS5 proxy support to Redis output. 1353
-
Failover and load balancing support in redis output. 1353
-
Multiple-worker per host support for redis output. 1353
-
Added ability to escape
${x}
in config files to avoid environment variable expansion 1389 -
Configuration options and CLI flags for setting the home, data and config paths. 1373
-
Configuration options and CLI flags for setting the default logs path. 1437
-
Update to Go 1.6.2 1447
-
Add Elasticsearch template files compatible with Elasticsearch 2.x. 1501
-
Add scripts for managing the dashboards of a single Beat 1359
Packetbeat
-
Fix compile issues for OpenBSD. 1347
Topbeat
-
Updated elastic/gosigar version so Topbeat can compile on OpenBSD. 1403
libbeat
Packetbeat
-
Rename output fields in the dns package. Former flag
recursion_allowed
becomesrecursion_available
. 803 Former SOA fieldttl
becomesminimum
. 803 -
The fully qualified domain names which are part of output fields values of the dns package now terminate with a dot. 803
-
Remove the count field from the exported event 1210
Topbeat
Filebeat
Winlogbeat
Affecting all Beats
-
Logstash output will not retry events that are not JSON-encodable 927
Packetbeat
Topbeat
-
Fix issue with
cpu.system_p
being greater than 1 on Windows 1128
Filebeat
Winlogbeat
Affecting all Beats
-
Update builds to Golang version 1.6
-
Add option to Elasticsearch output to pass http parameters in index operations 805
-
Improve Logstash and Elasticsearch backoff behavior. 927
-
Add experimental Kafka output. 942
-
Add config file option to configure GOMAXPROCS. 969
-
Improve shutdown handling in libbeat. 1075
-
Add
fields
andfields_under_root
options under theshipper
configuration 1092 -
Add the ability to use a SOCKS5 proxy with the Logstash output 823
-
The
-configtest
flag will now print "Config OK" to stdout on success 1249
Packetbeat
Topbeat
-
Add
username
to processes 845
Filebeat
Winlogbeat
-
Add caching of event metadata handles and the system render context for the wineventlog API 888
-
Improve config validation by checking for unknown top-level YAML keys. 1100
-
Add the ability to set tags, fields, and fields_under_root as options for each event log 1092
-
Add additional data to the events published by Winlogbeat. The new fields are
activity_id
,event_data
,keywords
,opcode
,process_id
,provider_guid
,related_activity_id
,task
,thread_id
,user_data
, andversion
. 1053 -
Add
event_id
,level
, andprovider
configuration options for filtering events 1218 -
Add
include_xml
configuration option for including the raw XML with the event 1218
-
All Beats can hang or panic on shutdown if the next server in the pipeline (e.g. Elasticsearch or Logstash) is not reachable. 1319
-
When running the Beats as a service on Windows, you need to manually load the Elasticsearch mapping template. 1315
-
The ES template automatic load doesn’t work if Elasticsearch is not available when the Beat is starting. 1321
Filebeat
-
Undocumented support for following symlinks is deprecated. Filebeat will not follow symlinks in version 5.0. 1767
Affecting all Beats
Packetbeat
Affecting all Beats
Topbeat
Filebeat
-
Default config for ignore_older is now infinite instead of 24h, means ignore_older is disabled by default. Use close_older to only close file handlers.
Packetbeat
-
Split real_ip_header value when it contains multiple IPs 1241
Winlogbeat
-
Fix invalid
event_id
on Windows XP and Windows 2003 1227
Affecting all Beats
Packetbeat
-
Fix setting direction to out and use its value to decide when dropping events if ignore_outgoing is enabled 557
-
Fix logging issue with file-based output where newlines could be misplaced during concurrent logging 650
-
Reduce memory usage by having separate queue sizes for single events and bulk events. 649 516
-
Set default bulk_max_size value to 2048 628
-
Fix logstash window size of 1 not increasing. 598
Packetbeat
Filebeat
-
Set spool_size default value to 2048 628
Affecting all Beats
Packetbeat
Topbeat
-
Group all CPU usage per core statistics and export them optionally if cpu_per_core is configured 496
Filebeat
Winlogbeat
-
First public release of Winlogbeat
Filebeat
-
Fix force_close_files in case renamed file appeared very fast. 302
Packetbeat
-
Improve MongoDB message correlation. 377
-
Improve redis parser performance. 422
-
Fix panic on nil in redis protocol parser. 384
-
Fix errors redis parser when messages are split in multiple TCP segments. 402
-
Fix errors in redis parser when length prefixed strings contain sequences of CRLF. 402
-
Fix errors in redis parser when dealing with nested arrays. 402
Affecting all Beats
-
Fix random panic on shutdown by calling shutdown handler only once. elastic/filebeat#204
-
Fix credentials are not send when pinging an elasticsearch host. elastic/fileabeat#287
Filebeat
-
Fix problem that harvesters stopped reading after some time and filebeat stopped processing events #257
-
Fix line truncating by internal buffers being reused by accident #258
-
Set default ignore_older to 24 hours #282
Affecting all Beats
-
The
shipper
output field is renamed tobeat.name
. #285 -
Use of
enabled
as a configuration option for outputs (elasticsearch, logstash, etc.) has been removed. #264 -
Use of
disabled
as a configuration option for tls has been removed. #264 -
The
-test
command line flag was renamed to-configtest
. #264 -
Disable geoip by default. To enable it uncomment in config file. #305
Filebeat
-
Removed utf-16be-bom encoding support. Support will be added with fix for #205
-
Rename force_close_windows_files to force_close_files and make it available for all platforms.
Affecting all Beats
-
Disable logging to stderr after configuration phase. #276
-
Set the default file logging path when not set in config. #275
-
Fix bug silently dropping records based on current window size. elastic/filebeat#226
-
Fix direction field in published events. #300
-
Fix elasticsearch structured errors breaking error handling. #309
Packetbeat
-
Packetbeat will now exit if a configuration error is detected. #357
-
Fixed an issue handling DNS requests containing no questions. #369
Topbeat
-
Fix leak of Windows handles. #98
-
Fix memory leak of process information. #104
Filebeat
-
Filebeat will now exit if a configuration error is detected. #198
-
Fix to enable prospector to harvest existing files that are modified. #199
-
Improve line reading and encoding to better keep track of file offsets based on encoding. #224
-
Set input_type by default to "log"
Affecting all Beats
-
Rename timestamp field with @timestamp. #237
Packetbeat
-
Rename timestamp field with @timestamp. #343
Topbeat
-
Rename timestamp field with @timestamp for a better integration with Logstash. #80
Filebeat
-
Rename the timestamp field with @timestamp #168
-
Rename tail_on_rotate prospector config to tail_files
-
Removal of line field in event. Line number was not correct and does not add value. #217
Affecting all Beats
-
Use stderr for console log output. #219
-
Handle empty event array in publisher. #207
-
Respect '*' debug selector in IsDebug. #226 (elastic#339)
-
Limit number of workers for Elasticsearch output. elastic#226
-
On Windows, remove service related error message when running in the console. #242
-
Fix waitRetry no configured in single output mode configuration. elastic/filebeat#144
-
Use http as the default scheme in the elasticsearch hosts #253
-
Respect max bulk size if bulk publisher (collector) is disabled or sync flag is set.
-
Always evaluate status code from Elasticsearch responses when indexing events. #192
-
Use bulk_max_size configuration option instead of bulk_size. #256
-
Fix max_retries=0 (no retries) configuration option. #266
-
Filename used for file based logging now defaults to beat name. #267
Packetbeat
-
Close file descriptors used to monitor processes. #337
-
Remove old RPM spec file. It moved to elastic/beats-packer. #334
Topbeat
-
Don’t wait for one period until shutdown #75
Filebeat
-
Omit 'fields' from event JSON when null. #126
-
Make offset and line value of type long in elasticsearch template to prevent overflow. #140
-
Fix locking files for writing behaviour. #156
-
Introduce 'document_type' config option per prospector to define document type for event stored in elasticsearch. #133
-
Add 'input_type' field to published events reporting the prospector type being used. #133
-
Fix high CPU usage when not connected to Elasticsearch or Logstash. #144
-
Fix issue that files were not crawled anymore when encoding was set to something other then plain. #182
Affecting all Beats
-
Add Console output plugin. #218
-
Add timestamp to log messages #245
-
Send @metadata.beat to Logstash instead of @metadata.index to prevent possible name clashes and give user full control over index name used for Elasticsearch
-
Add logging messages for bulk publishing in case of error #229
-
Add option to configure number of parallel workers publishing to Elasticsearch or Logstash.
-
Set default bulk size for Elasticsearch output to 50.
-
Set default http timeout for Elasticsearch to 90s.
-
Improve publish retry if sync flag is set by retrying only up to max bulk size events instead of all events to be published.
Filebeat
-
Introduction of backoff, backoff_factor, max_backoff, partial_line_waiting, force_close_windows_files config variables to make crawling more configurable.
-
All Godeps dependencies were updated to master on 2015-10-21 [#122]
-
Set default value for ignore_older config to 10 minutes. #164
-
Added the fields_under_root setting to optionally store the custom fields top level in the output dictionary. #188
-
Add more encodings by using x/text/encodings/htmlindex package to select encoding by name.
Affecting all Beats
-
Update tls config options naming from dash to underline #162
-
Feature/output modes: Introduction of PublishEvent(s) to be used by beats #118 #115
Packetbeat
-
Renamed http module config file option 'strip_authorization' to 'redact_authorization'
-
Save_topology is set to false by default
-
Rename elasticsearch index to [packetbeat-]YYYY.MM.DD
Topbeat
-
Percentage fields (e.g user_p) are exported as a float between 0 and 1 #34
Affecting all Beats
-
Determine Elasticsearch index for an event based on UTC time #81
-
Fixing ES output’s defaultDeadTimeout so that it is 60 seconds #103
-
ES outputer: fix timestamp conversion #91
-
Fix TLS insecure config option #239
-
ES outputer: check bulk API per item status code for retransmit on failure.
Packetbeat
-
Support for lower-case header names when redacting http authorization headers
-
Redact proxy-authorization if redact-authorization is set
-
Fix some multithreading issues #203
-
Fix negative response time #216
-
Fix memcache TCP connection being nil after dropping stream data. #299
-
Add missing DNS protocol configuration to documentation #269
Topbeat
-
Don’t divide the reported memory by an extra 1024 #60
Affecting all Beats
-
Add logstash output plugin #151
-
Integration tests for Beat → Logstash → Elasticsearch added #195 #188 #168 #137 #128 #112
-
Large updates and improvements to the documentation
-
Add direction field to publisher output to indicate inbound/outbound transactions #150
-
Add tls configuration support to elasticsearch and logstash outputers #139
-
All external dependencies were updated to the latest version. Update to Golang 1.5.1 #162
-
Guarantee ES index is based in UTC time zone #164
-
Cache: optional per element timeout #144
-
Make it possible to set hosts in different ways. #135
-
Expose more TLS config options #124
-
Use the Beat name in the default configuration file path #99
Packetbeat
-
add [.editorconfig file](http://editorconfig.org/)
-
add (experimental/unsupported?) saltstack files
-
Sample config file cleanup
-
Moved common documentation to [libbeat repository](https://github.com/elastic/libbeat)
-
Update build to go 1.5.1
-
Adding device descriptions to the -device output.
-
Generate coverage for system tests
-
Move go-daemon dependency to beats-packer
-
Rename integration tests to system tests
-
Made the
-devices
option more user friendly in casesudo
is not used. Issue #296. -
Publish expired DNS transactions #301
-
Update protocol guide to libbeat changes
-
Add protocol registration to new protocol guide
-
Make transaction timeouts configurable #300
-
Add direction field to the exported fields #317
Topbeat
-
Document fields in a standardized format (etc/fields.yml) #34
-
Updated to use new libbeat Publisher #37 #41
-
Update to go 1.5.1 #43
-
Updated configuration files with comments for all options #65
-
Documentation improvements