Breaking Changesedit

This section discusses the changes that you need to be aware of when migrating to Logstash 6.0.0 from the previous major releases.

See also:

Changes in Logstash Coreedit

These changes can impact any instance of Logstash and are plugin agnostic, but only if you are using the features that are impacted.

Application Settingsedit

  • The setting config.reload.interval has been changed to use time value strings such as 5m, 10s etc. Previously, users had to convert this to a millisecond time value themselves.

RPM/Deb package changesedit

  • For rpm and deb release artifacts, config files that match the *.conf glob pattern must be in the conf.d folder, or the files will not be loaded. If there are non-configuration files in this folder this can be problematic.

Command Line Interface behavioredit

  • The -e and -f CLI options are now mutually exclusive. This also applies to the corresponding long form options config.string and path.config. This means any configurations provided via -e will no longer be appended to the configurations provided via -f.
  • Configurations provided with -f or config.path will not be appended with stdin input and stdout output automatically.

Plugin Changesedit

Note that the list of plugins included with Logstash has changed. Please check that the new plugin list still includes all plugins you use.

Elasticsearch output changesedit

  • The default document_type has changed from logs to doc for consistency with Beats. Furthermore, users are advised that Elasticsearch 6.0 deprecates doctypes, and 7.0 will remove them. See Removal of Mapping Types for more info.
  • The options flush_size and idle_flush_time are now obsolete.
  • Please note that the _all field is deprecated in 6.0. The new mapping template has been updated to reflect that. If you are using a custom mapping template you may need to update it to reflect that.

Kafka input changesedit

  • Upgraded Kafka client support to v0.11.0.0, which only supports Kafka brokers v0.10.x or later.

    • Please refer to Kafka input plugin documentation for information about Kafka compatibility with Logstash.
  • Decorated fields are now nested under @metadata to avoid mapping conflicts with Beats.

    • See the Metadata Fields section in the Kafka input plugin documentation for more details.
  • The ssl option is now obsolete.

Kafka output changesedit

  • Upgraded Kafka client support to v0.11.0.0, which only supports Kafka brokers v0.10.x or later.

    • Please refer to Kafka output plugin documentation for information about Kafka compatibility with Logstash.
  • The options block_on_buffer_full, ssl, and timeout_ms are now obsolete.

Beats input changesedit

TCP Input Changesedit

  • Changed the behaviour of the host field to contain the resolved peer hostname for a connection instead of its peer IP.
  • Removed the data_timeout and ssl_cacert options because they are now obsolete.
  • Moved the peer’s IP to the new field ip_address.

TCP Output Changesedit

  • Breaking: removed the message_format option because it is now obsolete.

SQS Output Changesedit

  • Breaking: removed the batch and batch_timeout options because they are now obsolete.

Redis Output Changesedit

  • Removed the name and queue options because they are now obsolete.

RabbitMQ Input/Output Changesedit

  • Removed the debug, tls_certificate_path, and tls_certificate_password options because they are now obsolete.

Logstash Output HTTPedit

  • Removed the ssl_certificate_verify option because it is now obsolete.

Logstash Input HTTP Polleredit

  • Removed the ssl_certificate_verify option because it is now obsolete.

GeoIP Changesedit

  • Removed the lru_cache_size option because it is now obsolete.

CEF Codec Changesedit

  • Removed the sev and deprecated_v1_fields options because they are now obsolete.

List of plugins bundled with Logstashedit

The following plugins were removed from the 6.0 default bundle based on usage data. You can still install these plugins manually:

  • logstash-codec-oldlogstashjson
  • logstash-input-couchdb_changes
  • logstash-input-irc
  • logstash-input-log4j
  • logstash-input-lumberjack
  • logstash-filter-uuid
  • logstash-output-xmpp
  • logstash-output-irc
  • logstash-output-statsd