Release Notes
Backward Compatibility Breaks
- Rename
timestamp field with @timestamp for a better integration with Logstash. #343
Bugfixes
- Close file descriptors used to monitor processes. #337
- Remove old RPM spec file. It moved to elastic/beats-packer. #334
- On Windows, remove service related error message when running in the console. elastic/libbeat#242
- Respect max bulk size if bulk publisher (collector) is disabled or sync flag is set. elastic/libbeat#261
- Always evaluate status code from Elasticsearch responses when indexing events. elastic/libbeat#192
Added
- Send @metadata.beat to Logstash instead of @metadata.index to prevent possible name clashes and give user full control over index name used for Elasticsearch elastic/libbeat#231
- Add option to configure number of parallel workers publishing to Elasticsearch or Logstash.
- Set default bulk size for Elasticsearch output to 50.
- Set default http timeout for Elasticsearch to 90s.
- Improve publish retry if sync flag is set by retrying only up to max bulk size events instead of all events to be published.