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Beats version 8.17.3

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Known Issues

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Affecting all Beats

  • Disk queue filled metrics can underflow after blocked publishes. When a disk queue reaches its configured capacity, inputs can block until the output acknowledges events. The queue then accepts the blocked event without updating its metrics. When the event is later removed, the queue.filled.events, queue.filled.bytes, and queue.filled.pct metrics might report incorrect values. Event delivery is unaffected. Upgrade to 8.19.21 or later to apply the fix.

Filebeat

  • The Filestream input does not enforce the restrictions documented for the clean_inactive option, thus allowing configurations that can lead to data re-ingestion issues.
  • When clean_inactive: 0, Filestream cleans the state of all files on start up, effectively re-ingesting all files on restart. Set clean_inactive: -1 to disable this behavior.

Bugfixes

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  • 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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  • 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