Allow to set common settings • Created a new LS_HOME/data directory to store plugin states • Added hostname, http_address, version for all Monitoring APIs • Improve Beats input • Per column encoding support for JDBC input Alpha 4 & Alpha 5
Kafka directly • Integration with Ingest Node • set "pipeline parameter" in the Elasticsearch output config • Support IP/TCP flows • report statistics like packet/byte counts
directory layout • https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/directory-layout.html • Metricbeat • Collect many type of metrics include Topbeat • Add conditions to filtering • And introduce 'drop_event'