Logstash 8.19.4 Release Notes

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Logstash 8.19.4 Release Notes

Notable issues fixed

  • Improve logstash release artifacts file metadata: mtime is preserved when buiilding tar archives #18110
  • Gauge type metrics, such as current and peak connection counts of Elastic Agent, are now available in the _node/stats API response when the vertices=true parameter is included. These metrics are particularly useful for monitoring Logstash plugin activity on the Logstash Integration dashboards #18088

New features and enhancements

ES|QL Support in Elasticsearch Filter (Technical Preview)

  • Support for ES|QL queries in the Elasticsearch filter to add improved flexibility when ingesting data from Elasticsearch is now in Technical Preview.

Plugins

Elasticsearch Filter - 3.19.0

  • ES|QL support #199

Beats Input - 6.9.4

  • Upgrade netty to 4.1.126 #518

Http Input - 3.10.3

  • Upgrade netty to 4.1.126 #199

Jms Input - 3.3.1

  • Fixed a regression introduced in 3.3.0 where add_field is no longer enriching events #59

Tcp Input - 6.4.7

  • Upgrade netty to 4.1.126 #236

Kafka Integration - 11.6.4

  • Display exception chain comes from kafka client #200