Each release of Beats brings new features and product improvements. Following are the most notable features and enhancements in 7.8.

For a complete list of related highlights, see the Observability 7.8 release blog.

For a list of bug fixes and other changes, see the Beats Breaking Changes and Release Notes.

Support for monitoring Google Cloud service metricsedit

In this release, we’ve added support for monitoring Google Cloud operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). The new stackdriver metricset in the Google Cloud Platform module collects any service metrics from Google Cloud by using the ListTimeSeries API call.

For a full list of metric types that Google Cloud monitoring supports, see the Google Cloud metrics documentation.

Specialized Linux integrationedit

To simplify Linux monitoring, we’ve introduced a new Linux module that contains metrics exclusive to the Linux kernel and various subsystems. This is done primarily to avoid cluttering the System module with metricsets that are not broadly cross-compatible. The new Linux module currently includes these metricsets: pageinfo, ksm, and conntrack.