Beats version 7.0.0-alpha1

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Affecting all Beats

Dissect syntax change, use * instead of ? when working with field reference. 8054

Auditbeat

Use initial_scan action for new paths. 7954
Rename beat.name to agent.type, beat.hostname to agent.hostname, beat.version to agent.version.
Rename source.hostname to source.domain in the auditd module. 9027

Filebeat

Rename fileset.name to event.name. 8879
Rename fileset.module to event.module. 8879
Rename source to log.file.path and log.source.ip 8902
Remove the deprecated prospector(s) option in the configuration use input(s) instead. 8909
Rename offset to log.offset. 8923
Rename source_ecs to source in the Filebeat Suricata module. 8983

Affecting all Beats

Fixed -d CLI flag by trimming spaces from selectors. 7864
Fixed Support add_docker_metadata in Windows by identifying systems' path separator. 7797
Do not panic when no tokenizer string is configured for a dissect processor. 8895
Start autodiscover consumers before producers. 7926

Filebeat

Fixed a memory leak when harvesters are closed. 7820
Fix improperly set config for CRI Flag in Docker Input 8899
Just enabling the elasticsearch fileset and starting Filebeat no longer causes an error. 8891
Fix macOS default log path for elasticsearch module based on homebrew paths. {pul}8939[8939]

Heartbeat

Heartbeat now always downloads the entire body of HTTP endpoints, even if no checks against the body content are declared. This fixes an issue where timing metrics would be incorrect in scenarios where the body wasn’t used since the connection would be closed soon after the headers were sent, but before the entire body was. 8894
Host header can now be overridden for HTTP requests sent by Heartbeat monitors. 9516

Metricbeat

Packetbeat

Fixed the mysql missing transactions if monitoring a connection from the start. 8173

Affecting all Beats

Add field host.os.kernel to the add_host_metadata processor and to the internal monitoring data. 7807
Add debug check to logp.Logger 7965
Count HTTP 429 responses in the elasticsearch output 8056
Allow Bus to buffer events in case listeners are not configured. 8527
Dissect will now flag event on parsing error. 8751
add_cloud_metadata initialization is performed asynchronously to avoid delays on startup. 8845
Add DeDot method in add_docker_metadata processor in libbeat. 9350 9505

Filebeat

Heartbeat

Journalbeat

Metricbeat

Add metrics about cache size to memcached module 7740
Add experimental socket summary metricset to system module 6782
Collect custom cluster display_name in elasticsearch/cluster_stats metricset. 8445
Test etcd module with etcd 3.3. 9068
All elasticsearch metricsets now have module-level cluster.id and cluster.name fields. 8770 8771 9164 9165 9166 9168
All elasticsearch node-level metricsets now have node.id and node.name fields. 9168 9209

Packetbeat

Add support to decode HTTP bodies compressed with gzip and deflate. 7915
Added support to calculate certificates' fingerprints (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256). 8180
Support new TLS version negotiation introduced in TLS 1.3. 8647.