This list summarizes the most important breaking changes in Beats. For the complete list, go to Beats breaking changes.

Beats may not be sending data to some distributions of Elasticsearchedit

In this release, Elastic is enabling a licensing change that was broadly communicated earlier in 2021 (Licensing FAQ). This change would imply that 7.13 instances of Beats would fail to connect to 7.10 or earlier open source distributions of Elasticsearch and Kibana.

This licensing change ensures that the Beats modules are sending data to an officially supported versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana where Elastic can attest to the quality and scale of the products.