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Beats version 8.17.5 | Beats Platform Reference [8.19] | Elastic
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Beats version 8.17.5

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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.

Breaking changes

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Metricbeat

  • Handle permission errors while collecting data from Windows services and don’t interrupt the overall collection by skipping affected service. 40765 43665

Bugfixes

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Affecting all Beats

  • Restore maintainer label for container images. 43683

Metricbeat

  • Fix the function to determine CPU cores on windows. 42593 43409
  • Changed tier_preference, creation_date and version fields to be omitted from the resulting documents when not pulled from source indices. 43637

Added

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Filebeat

  • Allow a grace time for awss3 input shutdown to enable incomplete SQS message processing to be completed. 43369

Heartbeat

  • Upgrade node version to latest LTS v18.20.7. 43511

Metricbeat

  • Add a warning log to metricbeat.vsphere in case vSphere connection has been configured as insecure. 43104
  • Updated Meraki API endpoint for Channel Utilization data. Switched to GetOrganizationWirelessDevicesChannelUtilizationByDevice. 43485

Packetbeat - Add tls.server.ja3s tls fingerprint. 43284