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Beats version 8.17.8

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Beats version 8.17.8

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Known Issues

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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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Affecting all Beats

  • Fix dns processor to handle IPv6 server addresses properly. 44526
  • Use Debian 11 to build linux/arm to match linux/amd64. Upgrades linux/arm64’s statically linked glibc from 2.28 to 2.31. 44816

Filebeat

  • If a Filestream input fails to be created, its ID is removed from the list of running input IDs 44697
  • Ensure DEPROVISIONED Okta entities are published by Okta entityanalytics provider. 12658 44719
  • 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

  • Upgrade go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver version from 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

Added

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  • Update Go version to 1.24.4. 44696

Filebeat

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

Metricbeat

  • Add check for HTTP error codes in the Metricbeat’s Prometheus query submodule. 44493
  • Sanitize error messages in Fetch method of SQL module. 44577
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