Beats version 8.18.3

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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.

Affecting all Beats

Fix dns processor to handle IPv6 server addresses properly. 44526
Fix an issue where the Kafka output could get stuck if a proxied connection to the Kafka cluster was reset. 44606
Use Debian 11 to build linux/arm to match linux/amd64. Upgrades linux/arm64’s statically linked glibc version from 2.28 to 2.31. 44816

Filebeat

Journald input now works on Docker containers, all image variants except Wolfi. 41278 44040 44295
Fix publishing Okta entity analytics enrichments. 44483
If a Filestream input fails to be created, its ID is removed from the list of running input IDs. 44697
Fix timeout handling by Crowdstrike streaming input. 44720
Ensure DEPROVISIONED Okta entities are published by Okta entityanalytics provider. 12658 44719
Fix handling of cursors by the streaming input for Crowdstrike. 44364 44548
Added missing "text/csv" content-type filter support in azureblobsortorage input. 44596 44824
Fix unexpected EOF detection and improve memory usage. 44813
Fix handling of ADC (Application Default Credentials) metadata server credentials in HTTPJSON input. 44349 44436
Fix handling of ADC (Application Default Credentials) metadata server credentials in CEL input. 44349 44571

Metricbeat

Fix panic in kafka consumergroup member assignment fetching when there are 0 members in consumer group. 44576
Upgrade go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver from version v1.14.0 to v1.17.4 to fix connection leaks in MongoDB module. 44769
Fixed a bug where event.duration could be missing from an event on Windows systems due to low-resolution clock. 44440

Affecting all Beats

Filebeat

Filestream now logs at level warn the number of files that are too small to be ingested. 44751

Metricbeat

Add new metrics to vSphere Virtual Machine dataset (CPU usage percentage, disk average usage, disk read/write rate, number of disk reads/writes, memory usage percentage). 44205
Increase default polling period for MongoDB module from 10s to 60s. 44781
Add check for http error codes in the Metricbeat’s Prometheus query submodule. 44493
Sanitize error messages in Fetch method of SQL module. 44577