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Beats version 8.18.8

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Beats version 8.18.8

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Breaking changes

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Filebeat

  • Journald input now converts byte-encoded messages to string. 40479 46415

Bugfixes

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Affecting all Beats

  • Fixed a panic in the Kafka output that could occur when shutting down while final events were being published. 46109 46446

Filebeat

  • The UDP input now fails if it cannot bind to the configured port and its status is set to failed when running under Elastic Agent. 37216 46302
  • The Unix input now fails on errors listening to the socket and its status is set to failed when running under Elastic Agent. 46302
  • Fix metrics from TCP & UDP inputs when the port number is > 32767 46486
  • [Journald input] Fix reading all files in a folder and watching for new ones. 46657 46682
  • [azure-eventhub] Fix handling of connection strings with entity path. 43715 43716

Metricbeat

  • Do not log an error if metadata enrichment is disabled for K8’s module https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/46536
  • Fix Azure Monitor wildcard metrics names timegrain issue by using the first, smallest timegrain; fix nil pointer issue 46145

Winlogbeat

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Metricbeat

  • Add default timegrain to Azure Storage Account metricset. 46786
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