Brewing in Beats: Test command for Metricbeat modules
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Test command for Metricbeat modules
This PR adds a new test command for the Metricbeat modules. It goes over all the configured modules and executes a fetch for each, reporting the result back to the user, or any error that happened during the fetch.
$ ./metricbeat test modules system... process_summary...OK result: { "_namespace": "process.summary", "idle": 0, "running": 1, "sleeping": 236, "stopped": 0, "total": 238, "unknown": 1, "zombie": 0 } nginx... stubstatus... error... ERROR error making http request: Get http://127.0.0.1/server-status: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:80: getsockopt: connection refused
This functionality will be released in 6.0.0-beta1.
Load dashboards via Kibana API in version 5.6
In the 5.x versions, the Beat loads the dashboards directly in the Elasticsearch .kibana
index, and uses the import_dashboards
script for that (available in the Beat package). Starting with 6.0 version, if the Kibana version is greater than 5.6, then the Beat uses the Kibana API to load the dashboards, otherwise it loads them directly to Elasticsearch.
The PR adds the option in the 5.6 version to load the dashboards via the Kibana API from the import_dashboards
script, if requested by the user. This would make it possible for Beats 5.6 to import the dashboards in the future Kibana 6.x versions. The default is still to insert the dashboards directly in Elasticsearch, but one can provide a Kibana URL, in which case the Kibana API is used.
This functionality will be released only in 5.6.
Other changes
Repository: elastic/beats
Affecting all Beats
Changes in 5.x:
- Normalize times to common.Time with UTC time zone #4658
Changes in master:
- Add pattern option in the fields.yml #4731
Changes in 5.5:
- Normalize times to common.Time with UTC time zone #4658
Metricbeat
Changes in master:
- Update metricbeat to use new publisher API #4699
Filebeat
Changes in 5.x:
- Change grok pattern to fetch correct IP from X-Forwarded-For list #4351
- Nginx module: use first not private IP address as remote_ip #4417
- Update ML datafeed settings #4676
Changes in master:
- Added FBM Redis sample configuration files #4718
Winlogbeat
Changes in master:
- Fallback on LevelRaw If the Level is not in the RenderingInfo section of the event #4257
- Move Winlogbeat to new publisher pipeline #4690
Auditbeat
Changes in master:
- Mark audit metricsets as beta #4727
Dashboards
Changes in master:
- Few fixes for load dashboards via Kibana API #4721
Machine learning jobs
Changes in 5.x:
- Check ML job against a minimal version of ES #4681
Changes in master:
- Check ML job against a minimal version of ES #4681
Testing
Changes in master:
Changes in 5.5:
- Update testing env to 5.5.1 #4722
Infrastructure
Changes in master:
- Generate xunit report for system test #4686
Documentation
Changes in 5.x:
- Remove invalid links to releases #4707
Changes in master:
Changes in 5.5:
- Close changelog for 5.5.1 #4720
Repository: elastic/go-libaudit
Changes in master:
- Apply hex decoding to CWD #11