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

Golang version updateedit

The Beats platform has been updated to use Golang 1.12.9.

Auditbeat system module changesedit

The socket dataset in the system module now uses Kprobes for finer-grained monitoring and UDP support. For more information, see System socket dataset.

Filebeat field name changesedit

Some field names exported by the asa fileset in the cisco module have changed: