Filebeat™ version(s) 1.0.0-1.36.0

Winlogbeat™ version(s) 1.0.0-1.36.0

Metricbeat™ version(s) 1.0.0-1.36.0

Packetbeat™ version(s) 1.0.0-1.36.0

Filebeat™ version(s) 1.37.0 (Requires config change)

Winlogbeat™ version(s) 1.37.0 (Requires config change)

Metricbeat™ version(s) 1.37.0 (Requires config change)

Packetbeat™ version(s) 1.37.0 (Requires config change)

Logstash™ version(s) 1.0.0-1.33.1

Logstash 7.13 or later no longer ship logs to LogScale up to 1.33.1

Beats log shippers of 7.13 or later no longer ship logs to LogScale

Beats log shippers of 7.16 or later no longer ship logs to LogScale 1.36 or lower; 1.37 or later are fine

Beats log shippers of 8.0 or later work with a change to the configuration

Beats reports Invalid version from Elasticsearch

Logstash reports Attempted to resurrect connection to dead ES instance, but got an error {:url=>"http://192.168.0.116:9200/", :exception=>LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch::HttpClient::Pool::HostUnreachableError, :message=>"Elasticsearch Unreachable: [http://192.168.0.116:9200/][Manticore::SocketException] Connection refused"}

Beats reports Failed to connect to backoff(elasticsearch(https://cloud.us.humio.com:443/api/v1/ingest/elastic-bulk)): Connection marked as failed because the onConnect callback failed: Elasticsearch is too old. Please upgrade the instance. If you would like to connect to older instances set output.elasticsearch.allow_older_versions to true.

LogScale supports the Elastic Search (ES) API 6.x, Logstash and Beats log shippers of version 7.13 or higher no longer support the ES API 6.2. The result is that Beats and Logstash versions higher than 7.13 are no longer able to communicate with LogScale server. This was corrected in LogScale 1.37.

Beats log shippers v8.0 or later require a small configuration change to retain support.

You will need to change the version of Beats or Logstash log shipper to retain compatibility.

The table below summarizes the compatible versions for LogScale and Beats/Logstash.

Beats 8.0.0 and Later

Beats log shippers 8.0.0 and higher work with a configuration change. To retain compatibility, you need to add the setting setup.ilm.enabled: false. For example:

filebeat.inputs:

  - paths:
    - /var/log/system.log
    encoding: utf-8

  queue.mem:
    events: 8000
    flush.min_events: 1000
    flush.timeout: 1s

  output:
    elasticsearch:
      # Using the standard LogScale API (preferred)
      hosts: ["192.168.1.117:8080/api/v1/ingest/elastic-bulk"]
      username: anything
      password: 50a5c426-7203-4ab3-adcd-2a291be9180a
      compression_level: 5
      bulk_max_size: 200
      worker: 5

  logging:
    level: error
    to_files: true
    to_syslog: false
    files:
      path: ./filebeat-logs/
      name: filebeat.log
      keepfiles: 3

  setup.ilm.enabled: false

Beats 8.1.0 and Later

Beats log shippers 8.1.0 and higher work with a configuration change. To retain compatibility, you need to add the setting output.elasticsearch.allow_older_versions: true. For example:

filebeat.inputs:

  - paths:
    - /var/log/system.log
    encoding: utf-8

  queue.mem:
    events: 8000
    flush.min_events: 1000
    flush.timeout: 1s

  output:
    elasticsearch:
      # Using the standard LogScale API (preferred)
      hosts: ["192.168.1.117:8080/api/v1/ingest/elastic-bulk"]
      username: anything
      password: 50a5c426-7203-4ab3-adcd-2a291be9180a
      compression_level: 5
      bulk_max_size: 200
      worker: 5

  logging:
    level: error
    to_files: true
    to_syslog: false
    files:
      path: ./filebeat-logs/
      name: filebeat.log
      keepfiles: 3

  setup.ilm.enabled: false
  output.elasticsearch.allow_older_versions: true

Open Source Beats

You can download OSS versions of the Beats log shippers from the following links: