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Beats version 8.17.2
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Beats version 8.17.2
editBugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
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Fix incorrect cloud provider identification in
add_cloud_metadataprocessor using provider priority mechanism. 41636 - Prevent panic if Libbeat processors are loaded more than once. 41475 51857
- Allow network condition to handle field values that are arrays of IP addresses. 41918
- Fix a bug where log files are rotated on startup when interval is configured and rotateonstartup is disabled. 41894 41895
- Fix setting unique registry for non Beat receivers. 42288 42292
- The Kafka output now drops events when there is an authorization error. 42343 42401
- Fix autodiscovery memory leak related to metadata of start events. 41748
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All standard queue metrics are now included in metrics monitoring, including:
added.{events, bytes},consumed.{events, bytes},removed.{events, bytes}, andfilled.{events, bytes, pct}. 42439 -
The following output latency metrics are now included in metrics monitoring:
output.latency.{count, max, median, p99}. 42439
Filebeat
- Updated websocket retry error code list to allow more scenarios to be retried which could have been missed previously. 42218
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In the
streaminginput, prevent panics on shutdown with a null check and apply a consistent namespace to contextual data in debug logs. 42315 - Remove erroneous status reporting to Elastic-Agent from the Filestream input. 42435
Metricbeat