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Beats version 8.0.0

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Breaking changes

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Affecting all Beats

Remove the deprecated xpack.monitoring.* settings. Going forward only monitoring.* settings may be used. 9424 18608
Remove deprecated/undocumented IncludeCreatorMetadata setting from kubernetes metadata config options 28006
Remove deprecated fields from kubernetes module 28046
Remove deprecated config option aws_partition. 28120
Improve stats API by adding host metadata. 27963
Libbeat: logp package forces ECS compliant logs. Logs are JSON formatted. Options to enable ECS/JSON have been removed. 15544 28573
Remove auto from the available options of setup.ilm.enabled and set the default value to true. 28671
add_process_metadata processor: Replace usage of deprecated process.ppid field with process.parent.pid. 28620
add_docker_metadata processor: Replace usage of deprecated process.ppid field with process.parent.pid. 28620
Use data streams instead of indices for storing events from Beats. 28450
Remove option setup.template.type and always load composable template with data streams. 28450
Remove several ILM options (rollover_alias and pattern) as data streams does not require index aliases. 28450
Index template’s default_fields setting is only populated with ECS fields. 28596 28215
Remove auto from the available options of setup.ilm.enabled and set the default value to true. 28671
Remove deprecated --template and --ilm-policy flags. Use --index-management instead. 28870
Remove options logging.files.suffix and default to datetime endings in log file names. The format of the new name is {beatname}-{date}(-n)?.ndjson. Exmaple log files names from oldest to newest: filebeat-20200101.ndjson, filebeat-20200101-1.ndjson, filebeat-20200101-2.ndjson. 28927
Allign kubernetes configuration settings. 29908
The extension of the log files of Beats and Elastic Agent is changed to .ndjson. If you are collecting the logs, you must change the path configuration to /path/to/logs/{beatname}*.ndjson to avoid any issues. 28927
Remove legacy support for SSLv3. 30071

Filebeat

Add while_pattern type to multiline reader. 19662
auditd dataset: Use process.args to store program arguments instead of auditd.log.aNNN fields. 29601
Remove deprecated old awscloudwatch input name. 29844

Metricbeat

Remove network and diskio metrics from ec2 metricset. 28316
Rename read/write_io.ops_per_sec to read/write.iops in rds metricset. 28350
system/process metricset: Replace usage of deprecated process.ppid field with process.parent.pid. 28620

Packetbeat

event.category no longer contains the value network_traffic because this is not a valid ECS event category value. 20556
Remove deprecated TLS fields in favor of tls.server.x509 and tls.client.x509 ECS fields. 28487
HTTP: The field http.request.method will maintain its original case. 28620

Winlogbeat

Remove top level hash property from sysmon events 20653
Move module processing from local Javascript processor to ingest node 29184 29435

Bugfixes

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Auditbeat

libbeat/processors/add_process_metadata: Fix memory leak in process cache. 24890 29717

Filebeat

Fix using log_group_name_prefix in aws-cloudwatch input. 29695

Heartbeat

Add fonts to support more different types of characters for multiple languages. 29861

Metricbeat

Extract correct index property in kibana.stats metricset 29622
Fixed bug with elasticsearch/cluster_stats metricset not recording license expiration date correctly. 29711

Packetbeat

Prevent incorrect use of AMQP protocol parsing from causing silent failure. 29017
Fix error handling in MongoDB protocol parsing. 29017
Redis: fix incorrectly handle with two-words redis command. 14872 14873
Unify gopacket dependencies. 29167

Added

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Add config option rotate_on_startup to file output 19150 19347
Update to ECS 8.0 fields. 28620
Support custom analyzers in fields.yml. 28540 28926
Support self signed certificates on outputs 29229
Add FIPS configuration option for all AWS API calls. 28899
Warn users when connecting to older versions of Elasticsearch instances. 29723
add_fields processor is now able to set metadata in events 30092

Auditbeat

system/process: Prevent hashing files in other mnt namespaces. 25777 29678 29786

Metricbeat

Preliminary AIX support 27954
Add option to skip older k8s events 29396
Add elasticsearch.cluster.id field to Beat and Kibana modules. 29577
Add elasticsearch.cluster.id field to Logstash module. 29625

Winlogbeat

Add support for sysmon event ID 26; FileDeleteDetected. 26280 29957

Elastic Log Driver

Fixed docs for hosts 23644

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