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Beats version 8.16.6

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Beats version 8.16.6

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Breaking changes

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  • The Beats logger and file output rotate files when necessary. The beat now forces a file rotation when unexpectedly writing to a file through a symbolic link.

Bugfixes

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  • The Kafka output now drops events when there is an authorisation error. 42343 42401

Filebeat

  • Prevent computer details being returned for user queries by Active Directory Entity Analytics provider. 11818 42796
  • Handle unexpectedEOF error in aws-s3 input and enforce retrying using download failed error. 42756
  • Prevent azureblobstorage input from logging key details during blob fetch operations. 43169
  • Fixed race conditions in the global ratelimit processor that could drop events or apply rate limiting incorrectly.

Metricbeat

  • Add missing ECS Cloud fields in GCP metrics metricset when using exclude_labels: true. 40437 40467
  • Add AWS OwningAccount support for cross account monitoring. 40570 40691
  • Use namespace for GetListMetrics when exists in AWS. 41022
  • Fix Kubernetes metadata sometimes not being present after startup. 41216
  • Do not report non-existant 0 values for RSS metrics in docker/memory. 41449
  • Log Cisco Meraki getDevicePerformanceScores errors without stopping metrics collection. 41622
  • Don’t skip first bucket value in GCP metrics metricset for distribution type metrics. 41822
  • Fixed creation_date scientific notation output in the elasticsearch.index metricset. 42053
  • Fix bug where metricbeat unintentionally triggers Windows ASR. 42177
  • Remove hostname field from zookeeper’s mntr data stream. 41887
  • Continue collecting metrics even if the Cisco Meraki getDeviceLicenses operation fails. 42397
  • Fixed errors in the elasticsearch.index metricset when index settings are missing. 42424 42426
  • Fixed panic caused by uninitialized meraki device wifi0 and wifi1 struct pointers in the device WiFi data fetching. 42745 42746
  • Only fetch cluster-level index stats summary. 36019 42901
  • Fixed an issue in Metricbeat’s Windows module where data collection would fail if the data was unavailable. 42802 42803
  • Fix logging argument number mismatch in Metricbeat(Redis). 43072

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  • Update Go version to 1.23.6. 42705

Filebeat

  • Add configuration option to limit HTTP Endpoint body size. 43171
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