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Beats version 8.17.3

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Known issues

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  • restart_on_cert_change causes panic due to seccomp policy. In versions 8.17.3 and later, enabling this option causes the Beat to panic on restart. This is due to the eventfd2 syscall missing from the default seccomp policy. To fix this, add eventfd2 to a custom seccomp policy. To fix this, add eventfd2 to a custom seccomp policy. For more details, refer to Use Linux Secure Computing Mode (seccomp).
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seccomp:
  syscalls:
    - action: allow
      names:
        - accept
        - accept4
        - access
        - arch_prctl
        - bind
        - brk
        - capget
        - chmod
        - chown
        - clock_gettime
        - clock_nanosleep
        - clone
        - clone3
        - close
        - connect
        - dup
        - dup2
        - dup3
        - epoll_create
        - epoll_create1
        - epoll_ctl
        - epoll_pwait
        - epoll_wait
        - eventfd2
        - execve
        - exit
        - exit_group
        - faccessat
        - faccessat2
        - fchdir
        - fchmod
        - fchmodat
        - fchown
        - fchownat
        - fcntl
        - fdatasync
        - flock
        - fstat
        - fstatfs
        - fsync
        - ftruncate
        - futex
        - getcwd
        - getdents
        - getdents64
        - geteuid
        - getgid
        - getpeername
        - getpid
        - getppid
        - getrandom
        - getrlimit
        - getrusage
        - getsockname
        - getsockopt
        - gettid
        - gettimeofday
        - getuid
        - inotify_add_watch
        - inotify_init1
        - inotify_rm_watch
        - ioctl
        - kill
        - listen
        - lseek
        - lstat
        - madvise
        - mincore
        - mkdirat
        - mmap
        - mprotect
        - munmap
        - nanosleep
        - newfstatat
        - open
        - openat
        - pipe
        - pipe2
        - poll
        - ppoll
        - prctl
        - pread64
        - pselect6
        - pwrite64
        - read
        - readlink
        - readlinkat
        - recvfrom
        - recvmmsg
        - recvmsg
        - rename
        - renameat
        - rseq
        - rt_sigaction
        - rt_sigprocmask
        - rt_sigreturn
        - sched_getaffinity
        - sched_yield
        - sendfile
        - sendmmsg
        - sendmsg
        - sendto
        - set_robust_list
        - setitimer
        - setrlimit
        - setsockopt
        - shutdown
        - sigaltstack
        - socket
        - splice
        - stat
        - statfs
        - sysinfo
        - tgkill
        - time
        - tkill
        - uname
        - unlink
        - unlinkat
        - wait4
        - waitid
        - write
        - writev

Bugfixes

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Affecting all Beats

  • Restored event Meta fields in the Elasticsearch output’s error logs. 42559

Filebeat

  • [Journald] Fixes handling of journalctl restart. A known symptom was broken multiline messages when there was a restart of journalctl while aggregating the lines. 41331 42595
  • Fix entityanalytics activedirectory provider full sync use before initialization bug. 42682
  • In the http_endpoint input, fix the check for a missing HMAC HTTP header. 42756

Metricbeat

  • 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

Winlogbeat

  • Sync missing changes in modules pipelines. 42619

Added

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Affecting all Beats

  • Update Go version to 1.22.12. 42681

Filebeat

  • Introduce ignore older and start timestamp filters for AWS S3 input. 41804
  • Publish events progressively in the Okta provider of the Entity Analytics input. 40106 42567

Metricbeat

  • Log every 401 response from Kubernetes API Server. 42714
  • Collect more fields from ES node/stats metrics and only those that are necessary. 42421