Cherry-pick #18352 to 7.x: Add new mode to multiline reader to aggregate constant number of lines #19243
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Cherry-pick of PR #18352 to 7.x branch. Original message:
What does this PR do?
This PR adds a new mode for the multiline reader of Libbeat (exposed in Filebeat). The new mode lets users to aggregate the configured number of lines into a single event.
Example configuration to aggregate 5 lines:
This PR also adds a new configuration option
skip_newline
. If set, Filebeat does not add a newline when two events are concatenated.Checklist
CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
orCHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
.Related issues
Closes #18038