Beats version 1.0.0-beta4edit

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Breaking changesedit

Affecting all Beats

  • Update tls config options naming from dash to underline #162
  • Feature/output modes: Introduction of PublishEvent(s) to be used by beats #118 #115

Packetbeat

  • Renamed http module config file option strip_authorization to redact_authorization
  • Save_topology is set to false by default
  • Rename elasticsearch index to [packetbeat-]YYYY.MM.DD

Topbeat

  • Percentage fields (e.g user_p) are exported as a float between 0 and 1 #34

Bugfixesedit

Affecting all Beats

  • Determine Elasticsearch index for an event based on UTC time #81
  • Fixing ES output’s defaultDeadTimeout so that it is 60 seconds #103
  • ES outputer: fix timestamp conversion #91
  • Fix TLS insecure config option #239
  • ES outputer: check bulk API per item status code for retransmit on failure.

Packetbeat

  • Support for lower-case header names when redacting http authorization headers
  • Redact proxy-authorization if redact-authorization is set
  • Fix some multithreading issues #203
  • Fix negative response time #216
  • Fix memcache TCP connection being nil after dropping stream data. #299
  • Add missing DNS protocol configuration to documentation #269

Topbeat

  • Don’t divide the reported memory by an extra 1024 #60

Addededit

Affecting all Beats

  • Add logstash output plugin #151
  • Integration tests for Beat → Logstash → Elasticsearch added #195 #188 #168 #137 #128 #112
  • Large updates and improvements to the documentation
  • Add direction field to publisher output to indicate inbound/outbound transactions #150
  • Add tls configuration support to elasticsearch and logstash outputers #139
  • All external dependencies were updated to the latest version. Update to Golang 1.5.1 #162
  • Guarantee ES index is based in UTC time zone #164
  • Cache: optional per element timeout #144
  • Make it possible to set hosts in different ways. #135
  • Expose more TLS config options #124
  • Use the Beat name in the default configuration file path #99

Packetbeat

  • add [.editorconfig file](http://editorconfig.org/)
  • add (experimental/unsupported?) saltstack files
  • Sample config file cleanup
  • Moved common documentation to [libbeat repository](https://github.com/elastic/libbeat)
  • Update build to go 1.5.1
  • Adding device descriptions to the -device output.
  • Generate coverage for system tests
  • Move go-daemon dependency to beats-packer
  • Rename integration tests to system tests
  • Made the -devices option more user friendly in case sudo is not used. Issue #296.
  • Publish expired DNS transactions #301
  • Update protocol guide to libbeat changes
  • Add protocol registration to new protocol guide
  • Make transaction timeouts configurable #300
  • Add direction field to the exported fields #317

Topbeat

  • Document fields in a standardized format (etc/fields.yml) #34
  • Updated to use new libbeat Publisher #37 #41
  • Update to go 1.5.1 #43
  • Updated configuration files with comments for all options #65
  • Documentation improvements

Deprecatededit

Affecting all Beats

  • Redis output was deprecated #169 #145
  • Host and port configuration options are deprecated. They are replaced by the hosts configuration option. #141