Beats version 6.2.0

Affecting all Beats

The log format may differ due to logging library changes. 5901
The default value for pipelining is reduced to 2 to avoid high memory in the Logstash beats input. 6250

Auditbeat

Split the audit.kernel and audit.file metricsets into their own modules named auditd and file_integrity, respectively. This change requires existing users to update their config. 5422
Renamed file_integrity module fields. 5423 5995
Renamed auditd module fields. 5423 6080

Metricbeat

Rename golang.heap.system.optained field to golang.heap.system.obtained. 5703
De dot keys in jolokia/jmx metricset to prevent collisions. 5957

Auditbeat

Fixed an issue where the proctitle value was being truncated. 6080
Fixed an issue where values were incorrectly interpreted as hex data. 6080
Fixed parsing of the key value when multiple keys are present. 6080
Fix possible resource leak if file_integrity module is used with config reloading on Windows or Linux. 6198

Filebeat

Metricbeat

Fix error datastore '*' not found in Vsphere module. 4879
Fix error NotAuthenticated in Vsphere module. 4673
Fix mongodb session consistency mode to allow command execution on secondary nodes. 4689
Fix kubernetes state_pod status.phase so that the active phase is returned instead of unknown. 5980
Fix error collecting network_names in Vsphere module. 5962
Fix process cgroup memory metrics for memsw, kmem, and kmem_tcp. 6033
Fix kafka OffsetFetch request missing topic and partition parameters. 5880

Packetbeat

Affecting all Beats

Adding a local keystore to allow user to obfuscate password 5687
Add autodiscover for kubernetes. 6055
Add Beats metrics reporting to Xpack. 3422
Update the command line library cobra and add support for zsh completion 5761
Update to Golang 1.9.2
Moved ip_port indexer for add_kubernetes_metadata to all beats. 5707
ip_port indexer now index both IP and IP:port pairs. 5721
Add the ability to write structured logs. 5901
Use structured logging for the metrics that are periodically logged via the logging.metrics feature. 5915
Improve Elasticsearch output metrics to count number of dropped and duplicate (if event ID is given) events. 5811
Add the ability for the add_docker_metadata process to enrich based on process ID. 6100
The add_docker_metadata and add_kubernetes_metadata processors are now GA, instead of Beta. 6105
Update go-ucfg library to support top level key reference and cyclic key reference for the keystore 6098

Auditbeat

Filebeat

Metricbeat

Add ceph osd_df to metricbeat 5606
Add field network_names of hosts and virtual machines. 5646
Add experimental system/raid metricset. 5642
Add a dashboard for the Nginx module. 5991
Add experimental mongodb/collstats metricset. 5852
Update the MySQL dashboard to use the Time Series Visual Builder. 5996
Add experimental uwsgi module. 6006
Docker and Kubernetes modules are now GA, instead of Beta. 6105
Support haproxy stats gathering using http (additionally to tcp socket). 5819
Support to optionally de dot keys in http/json metricset to prevent collisions. 5957

Packetbeat