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Beats version 8.18.5

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Beats version 8.18.5

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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.

Bugfixes

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Auditbeat

  • auditd: Request status from a separate socket to avoid data congestion 41207
  • hasher: Add a cached hasher for upcoming backend. 41952
  • Fix potential data loss in add_session_metadata. 42795

Metricbeat

  • Fix URL construction to handle query parameters properly in GET requests for Jolokia 45620

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Metricbeat

  • Improve error messages in AWs Health 45408
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