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Beats version 8.17.1

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Beats version 8.17.1

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Breaking changes

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Affecting all Beats

  • Default Docker base image was reverted to Ubuntu 20.04 due to incompatability issues with glibc. 42144
  • Fix templates and docs to use correct -- version of command line arguments. 42038 42060

Bugfixes

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Filebeat

  • Fix streaming input handling of invalid or empty websocket messages. 42036
  • Fix awss3 document ID construction when using the CSV decoder. 42019
  • Improve S3 object size metric calculation to support situations where Content-Length is not available. 41755
  • Fix Netflow Template Sharing configuration handling. 42080

Metricbeat

  • Do not report non-existant 0 values for RSS metrics in docker/memory. 41449
  • Don’t skip first bucket value in GCP metrics metricset for distribution type metrics. 41822
  • [K8s Integration] Enhance HTTP authentication in case of token updates for Apiserver, Controllermanager and Scheduler metricsets. 41910 42016
  • Fixed creation_date scientific notation output in the elasticsearch.index metricset. 42053

Added

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Affecting all Beats

  • Update Go version to 1.22.10. 42095
  • Add regex pattern matching to add_kubernetes_metadata processor. 41903

Filebeat

  • Added support for retry configuration in GCS input. 11580 41862
  • Added default values in the streaming input for websocket retries and put a cap on retry wait time to be lesser than equal to the maximum defined wait time. 42012
  • Added OAuth2 support with auto token refresh for websocket streaming input. 41989 42212
  • Added infinite & blanket retry options to websockets and improved logging and retry logic. 42225

Metricbeat

  • Added tier_preference, creation_date and version fields to the elasticsearch.index metricset. 41944
  • Add use_performance_counters to collect CPU metrics using performance counters on Windows for system/cpu and system/core. 41965

Deprecated

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Filebeat

  • Removed bucket_timeout config option for GCS input and replaced bucket context with parent program context. 41107 41970
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