diff --git a/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
index f1daee33282..0f0565bfb30 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ The list below covers the major changes between 7.0.0-rc2 and master only.
 - Remove `common.MapStrPointer` parameter from `cfgfile.Runnerfactory` interface. {pull}19135[19135]
 - Replace `ACKCount`, `ACKEvents`, and `ACKLastEvent` callbacks with `ACKHandler` and interface in `beat.ClientConfig`. {pull}19632[19632]
 - Remove global ACK handler support via `SetACKHandler` from publisher pipeline. {pull}19632[19632]
+- Make implementing `Close` required for `reader.Reader` interfaces. {pull}20455[20455]
 
 ==== Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index d955c84e16f..2b514568c2f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -616,6 +616,10 @@ field. You can revert this change by configuring tags for the module and omittin
 - Add event.ingested for Suricata module {pull}20220[20220]
 - Add support for custom header and headersecret for filebeat http_endpoint input {pull}20435[20435]
 - Convert httpjson to v2 input {pull}20226[20226]
+- Add event.ingested to all Filebeat modules. {pull}20386[20386]
+- Return error when log harvester tries to open a named pipe. {issue}18682[18682] {pull}20450[20450]
+- Avoid goroutine leaks in Filebeat readers. {issue}19193[19193] {pull}20455[20455]
+
 
 *Heartbeat*
 
diff --git a/filebeat/input/log/harvester.go b/filebeat/input/log/harvester.go
index 9dc93202951..94f5caa76f4 100644
--- a/filebeat/input/log/harvester.go
+++ b/filebeat/input/log/harvester.go
@@ -291,7 +291,10 @@ func (h *Harvester) Run() error {
 		}
 
 		h.stop()
-		h.log.Close()
+		err := h.reader.Close()
+		if err != nil {
+			logp.Err("Failed to stop harvester for file %s: %v", h.state.Source, err)
+		}
 	}(h.state.Source)
 
 	logp.Info("Harvester started for file: %s", h.state.Source)
diff --git a/filebeat/input/log/log.go b/filebeat/input/log/log.go
index 1a89c5bc8d1..60728143764 100644
--- a/filebeat/input/log/log.go
+++ b/filebeat/input/log/log.go
@@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ func (f *Log) wait() {
 }
 
 // Close closes the done channel but no th the file handler
-func (f *Log) Close() {
+func (f *Log) Close() error {
 	close(f.done)
 	// Note: File reader is not closed here because that leads to race conditions
+	return nil
 }
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/debug/debug.go b/libbeat/reader/debug/debug.go
index 5e0b1e7c93a..a3bb7cc93fd 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/debug/debug.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/debug/debug.go
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ type CheckFunc func(offset int64, buf []byte) bool
 // Is is useful is you want to detect if you have received garbage from a network volume.
 type Reader struct {
 	log           *logp.Logger
-	reader        io.Reader
+	reader        io.ReadCloser
 	buffer        bytes.Buffer
 	minBufferSize int
 	maxFailures   int
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ type Reader struct {
 // NewReader returns a debug reader.
 func NewReader(
 	log *logp.Logger,
-	reader io.Reader,
+	reader io.ReadCloser,
 	minBufferSize int,
 	maxFailures int,
 	predicate CheckFunc,
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ func (r *Reader) Read(p []byte) (int, error) {
 	return n, err
 }
 
+func (r *Reader) Close() error {
+	return r.reader.Close()
+}
+
 func makeNullCheck(log *logp.Logger, minSize int) CheckFunc {
 	// create a slice with null bytes to match on the buffer.
 	pattern := make([]byte, minSize, minSize)
@@ -159,7 +163,7 @@ func summarizeBufferInfo(idx int, buf []byte) (int, []byte) {
 
 // AppendReaders look into the current enabled log selector and will add any debug reader that match
 // the selectors.
-func AppendReaders(reader io.Reader) (io.Reader, error) {
+func AppendReaders(reader io.ReadCloser) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
 	var err error
 
 	if logp.HasSelector("detect_null_bytes") || logp.HasSelector("*") {
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/debug/debug_test.go b/libbeat/reader/debug/debug_test.go
index ac6b6878c9b..c913cc2f0e6 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/debug/debug_test.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/debug/debug_test.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package debug
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
@@ -78,8 +79,9 @@ func testCheckContent(t *testing.T) {
 	s.WriteString("hello world")
 	s.WriteByte(0x00)
 	s.WriteString("hello world")
+	r := ioutil.NopCloser(&s)
 
-	reader, _ := NewReader(logp.L(), &s, 5, 3, check)
+	reader, _ := NewReader(logp.L(), r, 5, 3, check)
 
 	_, err := reader.Read(make([]byte, 20))
 	if !assert.NoError(t, err) {
@@ -91,7 +93,7 @@ func testCheckContent(t *testing.T) {
 
 func testConsumeAll(t *testing.T) {
 	c, _ := common.RandomBytes(2000)
-	reader := bytes.NewReader(c)
+	reader := ioutil.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(c))
 	var buf bytes.Buffer
 	consumed := 0
 	debug, _ := NewReader(logp.L(), reader, 8, 20, makeNullCheck(logp.L(), 1))
@@ -106,8 +108,8 @@ func testConsumeAll(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func testEmptyBuffer(t *testing.T) {
-	var buf bytes.Buffer
-	debug, _ := NewReader(logp.L(), &buf, 8, 20, makeNullCheck(logp.L(), 1))
+	buf := ioutil.NopCloser(&bytes.Buffer{})
+	debug, _ := NewReader(logp.L(), buf, 8, 20, makeNullCheck(logp.L(), 1))
 	data := make([]byte, 33)
 	n, err := debug.Read(data)
 	assert.Equal(t, io.EOF, err)
@@ -134,8 +136,9 @@ func testSilent(t *testing.T) {
 	b.Write([]byte{'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 0x00, 'e'})
 	b.Write([]byte{'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 0x00, 'e'})
 	b.Write([]byte{'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 0x00, 'e'})
+	r := ioutil.NopCloser(&b)
 
-	debug, _ := NewReader(logp.L(), &b, 3, 2, check)
+	debug, _ := NewReader(logp.L(), r, 3, 2, check)
 	consumed := 0
 	for consumed < b.Len() {
 		n, _ := debug.Read(make([]byte, 3))
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/multiline/counter.go b/libbeat/reader/multiline/counter.go
index bd410bc4ef7..602ac265885 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/multiline/counter.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/multiline/counter.go
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 package multiline
 
 import (
+	"io"
+
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/reader"
 )
 
@@ -131,3 +133,12 @@ func (cr *counterReader) resetState() {
 func (cr *counterReader) setState(next func(cr *counterReader) (reader.Message, error)) {
 	cr.state = next
 }
+
+func (cr *counterReader) Close() error {
+	cr.setState((*counterReader).readClosed)
+	return cr.reader.Close()
+}
+
+func (cr *counterReader) readClosed() (reader.Message, error) {
+	return reader.Message{}, io.EOF
+}
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/multiline/multiline_test.go b/libbeat/reader/multiline/multiline_test.go
index 2297fbc98b5..41959bb31ba 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/multiline/multiline_test.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/multiline/multiline_test.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package multiline
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"errors"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -333,7 +334,7 @@ func createMultilineTestReader(t *testing.T, in *bytes.Buffer, cfg Config) reade
 	}
 
 	var r reader.Reader
-	r, err = readfile.NewEncodeReader(in, readfile.Config{
+	r, err = readfile.NewEncodeReader(ioutil.NopCloser(in), readfile.Config{
 		Codec:      enc,
 		BufferSize: 4096,
 		Terminator: readfile.LineFeed,
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/multiline/pattern.go b/libbeat/reader/multiline/pattern.go
index 116af80135a..93cd390da4d 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/multiline/pattern.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/multiline/pattern.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package multiline
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/common/match"
@@ -254,6 +255,15 @@ func (pr *patternReader) setState(next func(pr *patternReader) (reader.Message,
 	pr.state = next
 }
 
+func (pr *patternReader) Close() error {
+	pr.setState((*patternReader).readClosed)
+	return pr.reader.Close()
+}
+
+func (pr *patternReader) readClosed() (reader.Message, error) {
+	return reader.Message{}, io.EOF
+}
+
 // matchers
 func afterMatcher(pat match.Matcher) (matcher, error) {
 	return genPatternMatcher(pat, func(last, current []byte) []byte {
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/reader.go b/libbeat/reader/reader.go
index 5aadcd611eb..81ae4ad8241 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/reader.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/reader.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package reader
 
 import (
 	"errors"
+	"io"
 )
 
 // Reader is the interface that wraps the basic Next method for
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ import (
 // Next returns the message being read or and error. EOF is returned
 // if reader will not return any new message on subsequent calls.
 type Reader interface {
+	io.Closer
 	Next() (Message, error)
 }
 
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readfile/encode.go b/libbeat/reader/readfile/encode.go
index b5b526ad361..84442d9d0d5 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readfile/encode.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readfile/encode.go
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ type Config struct {
 
 // New creates a new Encode reader from input reader by applying
 // the given codec.
-func NewEncodeReader(r io.Reader, config Config) (EncoderReader, error) {
+func NewEncodeReader(r io.ReadCloser, config Config) (EncoderReader, error) {
 	eReader, err := NewLineReader(r, config)
 	return EncoderReader{eReader}, err
 }
@@ -59,3 +59,7 @@ func (r EncoderReader) Next() (reader.Message, error) {
 		Bytes:   sz,
 	}, err
 }
+
+func (r EncoderReader) Close() error {
+	return r.reader.Close()
+}
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readfile/encode_test.go b/libbeat/reader/readfile/encode_test.go
index 9d6205c229f..6c65c48846e 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readfile/encode_test.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readfile/encode_test.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package readfile
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ func TestEncodeLines(t *testing.T) {
 
 	for name, testCase := range testCases {
 		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			r := bytes.NewReader(testCase.Input)
+			r := ioutil.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(testCase.Input))
 			codec, err := encFactory(r)
 			assert.Nil(t, err, "failed to initialize encoding: %v", err)
 
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readfile/limit.go b/libbeat/reader/readfile/limit.go
index d547ff09dfe..fb907ba06a3 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readfile/limit.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readfile/limit.go
@@ -49,3 +49,7 @@ func (r *LimitReader) Next() (reader.Message, error) {
 	}
 	return message, err
 }
+
+func (r *LimitReader) Close() error {
+	return r.reader.Close()
+}
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readfile/limit_test.go b/libbeat/reader/readfile/limit_test.go
index e310e151cf8..08639495952 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readfile/limit_test.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readfile/limit_test.go
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ func (m *mockReader) Next() (reader.Message, error) {
 	}, nil
 }
 
+func (m *mockReader) Close() error { return nil }
+
 var limitTests = []struct {
 	line      string
 	maxBytes  int
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readfile/line.go b/libbeat/reader/readfile/line.go
index e9ba491f483..3d10eb7664d 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readfile/line.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readfile/line.go
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ const unlimited = 0
 // using the configured codec. The reader keeps track of bytes consumed
 // from raw input stream for every decoded line.
 type LineReader struct {
-	reader     io.Reader
+	reader     io.ReadCloser
 	bufferSize int
 	maxBytes   int // max bytes per line limit to avoid OOM with malformatted files
 	nl         []byte
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ type LineReader struct {
 }
 
 // New creates a new reader object
-func NewLineReader(input io.Reader, config Config) (*LineReader, error) {
+func NewLineReader(input io.ReadCloser, config Config) (*LineReader, error) {
 	encoder := config.Codec.NewEncoder()
 
 	// Create newline char based on encoding
@@ -271,3 +271,7 @@ func (r *LineReader) decode(end int) (int, error) {
 	r.byteCount += start
 	return start, err
 }
+
+func (r *LineReader) Close() error {
+	return r.reader.Close()
+}
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readfile/line_test.go b/libbeat/reader/readfile/line_test.go
index 10a1ff958b5..d91544162c5 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readfile/line_test.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readfile/line_test.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/hex"
 	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"math/rand"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ func TestReaderEncodings(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 
 		// create line reader
-		reader, err := NewLineReader(buffer, Config{codec, 1024, LineFeed, unlimited})
+		reader, err := NewLineReader(ioutil.NopCloser(buffer), Config{codec, 1024, LineFeed, unlimited})
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal("failed to initialize reader:", err)
 		}
@@ -157,7 +158,7 @@ func TestLineTerminators(t *testing.T) {
 		buffer.Write([]byte("this is my second line"))
 		buffer.Write(nl)
 
-		reader, err := NewLineReader(buffer, Config{codec, 1024, terminator, unlimited})
+		reader, err := NewLineReader(ioutil.NopCloser(buffer), Config{codec, 1024, terminator, unlimited})
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("failed to initialize reader: %v", err)
 			continue
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ func testReadLines(t *testing.T, inputLines [][]byte) {
 	// initialize reader
 	buffer := bytes.NewBuffer(inputStream)
 	codec, _ := encoding.Plain(buffer)
-	reader, err := NewLineReader(buffer, Config{codec, buffer.Len(), LineFeed, unlimited})
+	reader, err := NewLineReader(ioutil.NopCloser(buffer), Config{codec, buffer.Len(), LineFeed, unlimited})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Error initializing reader: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -349,7 +350,7 @@ func TestMaxBytesLimit(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Create line reader
-	reader, err := NewLineReader(strings.NewReader(input), Config{codec, bufferSize, LineFeed, lineMaxLimit})
+	reader, err := NewLineReader(ioutil.NopCloser(strings.NewReader(input)), Config{codec, bufferSize, LineFeed, lineMaxLimit})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal("failed to initialize reader:", err)
 	}
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readfile/strip_newline.go b/libbeat/reader/readfile/strip_newline.go
index 97cc005da92..6c5e5c513d2 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readfile/strip_newline.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readfile/strip_newline.go
@@ -81,3 +81,7 @@ func (p *StripNewline) autoLineEndingChars(l []byte) int {
 	}
 	return 1
 }
+
+func (p *StripNewline) Close() error {
+	return p.reader.Close()
+}
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readfile/timeout.go b/libbeat/reader/readfile/timeout.go
index fd3d1c8ba7c..8e6f7f06023 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readfile/timeout.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readfile/timeout.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package readfile
 
 import (
 	"errors"
+	"io"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/reader"
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ type TimeoutReader struct {
 	signal  error
 	running bool
 	ch      chan lineMessage
+	done    chan struct{}
 }
 
 type lineMessage struct {
@@ -54,6 +56,7 @@ func NewTimeoutReader(reader reader.Reader, signal error, t time.Duration) *Time
 		signal:  signal,
 		timeout: t,
 		ch:      make(chan lineMessage, 1),
+		done:    make(chan struct{}),
 	}
 }
 
@@ -68,9 +71,13 @@ func (r *TimeoutReader) Next() (reader.Message, error) {
 		go func() {
 			for {
 				message, err := r.reader.Next()
-				r.ch <- lineMessage{message, err}
-				if err != nil {
-					break
+				select {
+				case <-r.done:
+					return
+				case r.ch <- lineMessage{message, err}:
+					if err != nil {
+						return
+					}
 				}
 			}
 		}()
@@ -85,5 +92,13 @@ func (r *TimeoutReader) Next() (reader.Message, error) {
 		return msg.line, msg.err
 	case <-timer.C:
 		return reader.Message{}, r.signal
+	case <-r.done:
+		return reader.Message{}, io.EOF
 	}
 }
+
+func (r *TimeoutReader) Close() error {
+	close(r.done)
+
+	return r.reader.Close()
+}
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readjson/docker_json.go b/libbeat/reader/readjson/docker_json.go
index c38e0a1a51c..59dded97ec3 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readjson/docker_json.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readjson/docker_json.go
@@ -244,3 +244,7 @@ func stripNewLineWin(msg *reader.Message) {
 		return r == '\n' || r == '\r'
 	})
 }
+
+func (p *DockerJSONReader) Close() error {
+	return p.reader.Close()
+}
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readjson/docker_json_test.go b/libbeat/reader/readjson/docker_json_test.go
index 23cc862d964..2c9e2e71104 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readjson/docker_json_test.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readjson/docker_json_test.go
@@ -365,3 +365,5 @@ func (m *mockReader) Next() (reader.Message, error) {
 		Bytes:   len(message),
 	}, nil
 }
+
+func (m *mockReader) Close() error { return nil }
diff --git a/libbeat/reader/readjson/json.go b/libbeat/reader/readjson/json.go
index aca7c535148..b2c0e5e028f 100644
--- a/libbeat/reader/readjson/json.go
+++ b/libbeat/reader/readjson/json.go
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ func (r *JSONReader) Next() (reader.Message, error) {
 	return message, nil
 }
 
+func (r *JSONReader) Close() error {
+	return r.reader.Close()
+}
+
 func createJSONError(message string) common.MapStr {
 	return common.MapStr{"message": message, "type": "json"}
 }