Beats filebeat

Elastic·Elastic.Filebeat

Tails and ships log files

Filebeat is an open source file harvester, mostly used to fetch logs files and feed them into logstash. Together with the libbeat lumberjack output is a replacement for logstash-forwarder.

winget install --id Elastic.Filebeat --exact --source winget

Latest 9.4.4·July 23, 2026

Release Notes

Features and enhancements All

  • Use native Go for Linux FIPS builds. #51345 Filebeat
  • Add sign-in activity enrichment for Azure AD users via enrich_with: sign_in_activity. #51390
  • Optimize filestream logger performance. #50118
  • Add an input_type resource attribute to CEL input OTel metrics for consistent filtering across custom and HTTP client metrics. #50645
  • Add consumer-group and network timeout options to the Filebeat Kafka input. #51173 #51172
  • Upgrade github.com/elastic/go-lumber to v0.2.0. #51518
  • Add a configurable retry policy to the Azure Blob Storage input. #51701 #44629
  • Add group_instance_id (KIP-345 static group membership) to the Filebeat Kafka input. #51772 #51768 Heartbeat
  • Remove unsupported ciphers for FIPS mode. #51326 Fixes All
  • Fix goroutine leak when processor construction fails. #51687
  • Fix data races in the add_docker_metadata cache initialization. #51688
  • Close Beat processors on Beat OTel processor shutdown to avoid leaking resources on collector reloads. #51743
  • Update elastic-agent-libs to v0.46.1. #51921 Fixed an issue where malformed TLS keys could be printed in the error logs during loading failures. Auditbeat
  • Fix data races in the backoff accounting of the add_session_metadata processor's kernel_tracing provider. #51745 Elastic agent
  • Fix data race in the elasticsearch_storage OTel extension. #51501
  • Fix registry corruption issue with multiple metricbeat receivers. #51591 #15154 Filebeat
  • Filestream now defers shutdown until it reaches EOF or a configurable timeout. The new read_until_eof option (enabled by default) lets you opt out. #50324 #40447
  • Fix DPoP resource client signing method assignment in CEL and HTTP JSON input. #51433
  • Validate CrowdStrike streaming resource URL origins against the configured discover URL. #51435
  • Use constant-time comparison for http_endpoint basic auth and secret header validation. #51436
  • Validate that HTTPJSON pagination URLs share the configured request URL origin. #51437
  • Fix Filebeat duplicating events after a normal shutdown caused by a race in the registrar. #51517
  • Avoid slice-bounds panic when sorting copytruncate rotated files by date. #51570
  • Fix type loss in HTTP JSON template transform handling. #51593
  • Fix filestream data loss when a harvester closes before ingesting any data. #51675
  • Fix CrowdStrike streaming input retry cap so max_attempts and infinite_retries are honoured. #51712
  • Fix winlog input crash and event loss during shutdown. #51728
  • Make the CrowdStrike streaming input self-heal from transient discover failures. #51737
  • Prevent Filebeat startup failure when meta.json is left empty after migration. #51791
  • Synchronize Filebeat Run and Shutdown functions. #51800
  • Fix aws-s3 input not performing backup_to_bucket and delete_after_backup in polling mode. #49734 #46672
  • Fix goroutine leak in request trace logging infrastructure. #51950 Libbeat
  • Fix a data race in the rate_limit processor when configured with fields and run concurrently. #51736
  • Fix a startup data race in the add_kubernetes_metadata processor. #51739
  • Prevent statestore startup failure when meta.json is left empty after an unclean shutdown. #51897 Metricbeat
  • Fix a race condition during metricset closure. #50834
  • Fix missing state_service and state_storageclass events when kube-state-metrics denylists *_created. #51255 #34074 Osquerybeat
  • Fix a rare crash when Osquery restarts after a configuration change. #51520
  • Emit pack_name and query_name in Osquerybeat scheduled query results. #51781 Packetbeat
  • Load the Npcap wpcap.dll lazily to avoid blocking Npcap upgrades on Windows. #51716 #14517

Installer type: wix

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Details

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