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Beats version 8.17.6

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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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Filebeat

  • Journald input is again usable in the Filebeat Docker container (except Wolfi) by including journalctl by default. The included version of journalctl must be compatible with the one on that wrote the journal files being ingested. The Wolfi container remains distroless and does not contain journalctl or any part of systemd. 41278 44040 44056
  • Fixed websocket input panic on sudden network error or server crash. 44063 44068

Added

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Filebeat

  • Add pagination batch size support to Entity Analytics input’s Okta provider. 43655