Beats release notes
Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Beats.
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- Improves logging in system/socket in Auditbeat. #41571
- Adds out of the box support for Amazon EventBridge notifications over SQS to S3 input in Filebeat. #40006
- Update CEL mito extensions to v1.16.0 in Filebeat. #41727
- Filebeat's registry is now added to the Elastic-Agent diagnostics bundle. #33238 and #41795
- Adds
unifiedlogs
input for MacOS in Filebeat. #41791 - Adds evaluation state dump debugging option to CEL input in Filebeat. #41335
- Rate limiting operability improvements in the Okta provider of the Entity Analytics input in Filebeat. #40106 and #41977
- Rate limiting fault tolerance improvements in the Okta provider of the Entity Analytics input in Filebeat. #40106 #42094
- Introduces ignore older and start timestamp filters for AWS S3 input in Filebeat. #41804
- Journald input now can report its status to Elastic-Agent in Filebeat. #39791 and #42462
- Publish events progressively in the Okta provider of the Entity Analytics input in Filebeat. #40106 and #42567
- Journald
include_matches.match
now accepts+
to represent a logical disjunction (OR) in Filebeat. #40185 and #42517 - The journald input is now generally available in Filebeat. #42107
- Adds support for RFC7231 methods to HTTP monitors in Heartbeat. #41975
- Adds
use_kubeadm
config option in kubernetes module in order to toggle kubeadm-config API requests in Metricbeat. #40086 - Preserve queries for debugging when
merge_results: true
in SQL module in Metricbeat. #42271 - Collect more fields from ES node/stats metrics and only those that are necessary in Metricbeat. #42421
- Adds benchmark module in Metricbeat. #41801
- Increase maximum query timeout to 24 hours in Osquerybeat. 42356
- Properly set events
UserData
when experimental API is used in Winlogbeat. #41525 - Include XML is respected for experimental API in Winlogbeat. #41525
- Forwarded events use renderedtext info for experimental API in Winlogbeat. #41525
- Language setting is respected for experimental API in Winlogbeat. #41525
- Language setting also added to decode XML wineventlog processor in Winlogbeat. #41525
- Format embedded messages in the experimental API in Winlogbeat. #41525
- Make the experimental API GA and rename it to winlogbeat-raw in Winlogbeat. #39580 and #41770
- Removes 22 clause limitation in Winlogbeat. #35047 and #42187
- Adds handling for recoverable publisher disabled errorsin Winlogbeat. #35316 and #42187
- Removes Functionbeat binaries from CI pipelines. #40745 and #41506
- Update Go version to 1.24.0. #42705
- Add
etw
input fallback to attach an already existing session in Filebeat. #42847 - Update CEL mito extensions to v1.17.0 in Filebeat. #42851
- Winlog input in Filebeat cam now report its status to Elastic Agent. #43089
- Add configuration option to limit HTTP Endpoint body size in Filebeat. #43171
- Add a new
match_by_parent_instance
option toperfmon
module in Metricbeat. #43002 - Add a warning log to
metricbeat.vsphere
in Metricbeat in case vSphere connection has been configured as insecure. #43104
- hasher: Add a cached hasher for upcoming backend in Auditbeat. #41952
- Split common tty definitions in Auditbeat. #42004
- Redact authorization headers in HTTPJSON debug logs in Filebeat. #41920
- Further rate limiting fix in the Okta provider of the Entity Analytics input in Filebeat. #40106 and #41977
- The
_id
generation process for S3 events has been updated to incorporate the LastModified field. This enhancement ensures that the_id
is unique in Filebeat. #42078 - Fixes truncation of bodies in request tracing by limiting bodies to 10% of the maximum file size in Filebeat. #42327
- [Journald] Fixes handling of
journalctl
restart. A known symptom was broken multiline messages when there was a restart of journalctl while aggregating the lines in Filebeat. #41331 and #42595 - Fixwa bug where Metricbeat unintentionally triggers Windows ASR in Metricbeat. #42177
- Removes
hostname
field from ZooKeeper'smntr
data stream in Metricbeat. 41887 - Properly marshal nested structs in ECS fields, fixing issues with mixed cases in field names in Packetbeat. 42116
- Fixed race conditions in the global ratelimit processor that could drop events or apply rate limiting incorrectly in Filebeat. 42966
- Prevent computer details being returned for user queries by Activedirectory Entity Analytics provider in Filebeat. #11818 and #42796
- Handle unexpected EOF error in aws-s3 input and enforce retrying using download failed error in Filebeat. #42420
- Prevent azureblobstorage input from logging key details during blob fetch operations in Filebeat. #43169
- Add AWS OwningAccount support for cross account monitoring in Metricbeat. #40570 and #40691
- Fix logging argument number mismatch in Metricbeat(Redis). #43072
- Reset EventLog if error EOF is encountered in Winlogbeat. #42826
- Implement backoff on error retrial in Winlogbeat. #42826
- Fix boolean key in security pipelines and sync pipelines with integration in Winlogbeat. #43027