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Breaking changes

Affecting all Beats

Auditbeat

  • Auditd module: Normalized value of event.category field from user-login to authentication. 11432

  • Auditd module: Unset auditd.session and user.audit.id fields are removed from audit events. 11431 11815

  • Socket dataset: Exclude localhost by default 11993

Filebeat

  • Modify apache/error dataset to follow ECS. 8963

  • Rename many traefik.access.* fields to map to ECS. 9005

  • Fix parsing of GC entries in elasticsearch server log. 9513 9810

  • Add read_buffer configuration option. 11739

Heartbeat

  • Removed the add_host_metadata and add_cloud_metadata processors from the default config. These don’t fit well with ECS for Heartbeat and were rarely used.

Journalbeat

Metricbeat

  • Add new option OpMultiplyBuckets to scale histogram buckets to avoid decimal points in final events 10994

  • Change cloud.provider from ec2 to aws and from gce to gcp in add_cloud_metadata to align with ECS. 10775 11687

  • system/raid metricset now uses /sys/block instead of /proc/mdstat for data. 11613

Packetbeat

  • Add support for mongodb opcode 2013 (OP_MSG). 6191 8594

  • NFSv4: Always use opname ILLEGAL when failed to match request to a valid nfs operation. 11503

Winlogbeat

  • Adjust Winlogbeat fields to map to ECS. 10333

Functionbeat

Bugfixes

Affecting all Beats

  • Fix typo in TLS renegotiation configuration and setting the option correctly 10871, 12354

  • Ensure all beat commands respect configured settings. 10721

  • Add missing fields and test cases for libbeat add_kubernetes_metadata processor. 11133, 11134

  • decode_json_field: process objects and arrays only 11312

  • decode_json_field: do not process arrays when flag not set. 11318

  • Report faulting file when config reload fails. 1130411304

  • Fix a typo in libbeat/outputs/transport/client.go by updating c.conn.LocalAddr() to c.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

  • Relax validation of the X-Pack license UID value. 11640

  • Fix a parsing error with the X-Pack license check on 32-bit system. 11650

  • Escape BOM on JsonReader before trying to decode line 11661

  • Fix ILM policy always being overwritten. 11671

  • Fix template always being overwritten. 11671

  • Fix matching of string arrays in contains condition. 11691

  • 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

  • Fix a race condition with the Kafka pipeline client, it is possible that Close() get called before Connect() . 11945

  • Fix queue.spool.write.flush.events config type. 12080

  • Fixed a memory leak when using the add_process_metadata processor under Windows. 12100

  • Fix of docker json parser for missing "log" jsonkey in docker container’s log 11464

  • Fixed Beat ID being reported by GET / API. 12180

  • Add host.os.codename to fields.yml. 12261

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

  • Login dataset: Fix re-read of utmp files. 12028

  • 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

  • Package dataset: Close librpm handle. 12215

  • Package dataset: Auto-detect package directories. 12289

  • Package dataset: Improve dpkg parsing. 12325

  • System module: Start system module without host ID. 12373

Filebeat

  • Add support for Cisco syslog format used by their switch. 10760

  • Cover empty request data, url and version in Apache2 modulehttps://github.com//pull/10730[10730]

  • Fix registry entries not being cleaned due to race conditions. 10747

  • Improve detection of file deletion on Windows. 10747

  • Fix goroutine leak happening when harvesters are dynamically stopped. 11263

  • Fix add_docker_metadata source matching, using log.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

  • Skipping unparsable log entries from docker json reader 12268

  • Parse timezone in PostgreSQL logs as part of the timestamp 12338

  • Require client_auth by default when ssl is enabled for tcp input 12333

  • Require certificate authorities, certificate file, and key when SSL is enabled for the TCP input. 12355

  • Load correct pipelines when system module is configured in modules.d. 12340

Heartbeat

  • Fix NPE on some monitor configuration errors. 11910

  • Fix NPEs / resource leaks when executing config checks. 11165

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 overwrite cloud 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

  • 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

  • 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 when consumer_utilisation is set empty at the metrics source 12089

  • Fix direction of incoming IPv6 sockets. 12248

  • Validate that kibana/status metricset cannot be used when xpack is enabled. 12264

  • Ignore prometheus metrics when their values are NaN or Inf. 12084 10849

  • In the kibana/stats metricset, only log error (don’t also index it) if xpack is enabled. 12265

  • Require client_auth by default when ssl is enabled for module http metricset serverhttps://github.com//pull/12333[12333]

Packetbeat

  • Prevent duplicate packet loss error messages in HTTP events. 10709

  • Avoid reporting unknown MongoDB opcodes more than once. 10878

  • Fixed a memory leak when using process monitoring under Windows. 12100

  • Improved debug logging efficiency in PGQSL module. 12150

Winlogbeat

Functionbeat

  • Fix function name reference for Kinesis streams in CloudFormation templates 11646

Added

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 when fail_on_error is set in rename and copy_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

  • Processor add_cloud_metadata adds fields cloud.account.id and cloud.image.id for AWS EC2. 12307

Auditbeat

  • Auditd module: Add event.outcome and event.type for ECS. 11432

  • Package: Enable suse. 11634

  • Add support to the system package dataset for the SUSE OS family. 11634

  • Process: Add file hash of process executable. 11722

  • Socket: Add network.transport and network.community_id. 12231

  • Host: Fill top-level host fields. 12259

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

  • Allow custom default settings with autodiscover (for example, use of CRI paths for logs). 12193

  • Allow to disable hints based autodiscover default behavior (fetching all logs). 12193

  • 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

  • New module for Cisco ASA logs. 9200 11171

  • 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 panw for Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS logs. 11999

  • Add RabbitMQ module. 12032

  • Add new container input. 12162

  • Add timeouts on communication with docker daemon. 12310

  • container and docker inputs now support reading of labels and env vars written by docker JSON file logging driver. 8358

  • Add specific date processor to convert timezones so same pipeline can be used when convert_timezone is enabled or disabled. 12253

  • Add MSSQL module 12079

Heartbeat

  • Enable add_observer_metadata processor in default config. 11394

Journalbeat

Metricbeat

  • Add AWS SQS metricset. 10684 10053

  • Add AWS s3_request metricset. 10949 10055

  • Add s3_daily_storage metricset. 10940 10055

  • Add coredns metricbeat module. 10585

  • Add SSL support for Metricbeat HTTP server. 11482 11457

  • The elasticsearch.index metricset (with xpack.enabled: true) now collects refresh.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 and start_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 AWS cloudwatch metricset. 11798 11734

  • Add regions in aws module config to specify target regions for querying cloudwatch metrics. 11932 11956

  • Keep etcd followers members from reporting leader metricset events 12004

  • Add overview dashboard to Consul module 10665

  • New fields were added in the mysql/status metricset. 12227

  • Always report Pod UID in the pod metricset. 12345

  • Add Vsphere Virtual Machine operating system to os field in Vsphere virtualmachine module. 12391

  • Add validation for elasticsearch and kibana modules' metricsets when xpack.enabled is set to true. 12386

Packetbeat

Functionbeat

  • New options to configure roles and VPC. 11779

  • Export automation templates used to create functions. 11923

  • Configurable Amazon endpoint. 12369

Winlogbeat

  • Add support for reading from .evtx files. 4450

Deprecated

Affecting all Beats

Filebeat

  • docker input is deprecated in favour container. 12162

  • postgresql.log.timestamp field is deprecated in favour of @timestamp. 12338

Heartbeat

Journalbeat

Metricbeat

Packetbeat

Winlogbeat

  • Close handle on signalEvent. 9838

Functionbeat

Known Issue

Journalbeat