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Install Beats packetbeat

Monitors the network and applications by sniffing packets

Install with winget
winget install --id Elastic.Packetbeat
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id Elastic.Packetbeat
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id Elastic.Packetbeat

About Beats packetbeat

Packetbeat is an open source network packet analyzer that ships the data to Elasticsearch. Think of it like a distributed real-time Wireshark with a lot more analytics features. The Packetbeat shippers sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis or Thrift and correlate the messages into transactions. For each transaction, the shipper inserts a JSON document into Elasticsearch, where it is stored and indexed. You can then use Kibana to view key...

Version history

Version Updated Notes
9.5.0 Unknown Release notes
9.4.4 Unknown 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...
9.4.3 Unknown This release also includes: Deprecations. Features and enhancements All - Migrate from the deprecated github.com/docker/docker module to the github.com/moby/moby split modules. #50300 Beats - Allow TLS certificate and CA...
9.4.2 Unknown Features and enhancements Filebeat - Match http.ServeMux redirect status code for path cleaning in http_endpoint mux. #50686 Libbeat - Update ebpfevents to v0.9.0. #50609 Metricbeat - Add failure_store metric to the stat...
9.4.1 Unknown Features and enhancements Libbeat - Cache add_locale processor and refresh only when zone or offset changes. #50343 #50322 Fixes All - Update go-ntlmssp to v0.1.1. #50497 - Fix a deadlock between shutdown and metrics col...
9.4.0 Unknown Features and enhancements All - Export all Beat receiver metrics to OTel telemetry. #49300 - Add add_agent_metadata processor to inject agent metadata efficiently. #49667 - Update OTel Collector components to v0.149.0/v1...
9.3.4 Unknown Features and enhancements All - Update OTel Collector components to v0.149.0/v1.55.0. #50057 Metricbeat - Bump azure-sdk-for-go armmonitor from v0.8.0 to v0.11.0. #49866 Fixes Agentbeat - Update transient dependency gith...
9.3.3 Unknown Features and enhancements All - Update OTel Collector components to v0.148.0. #49578 Filebeat - Add retry back-off logic to streaming input CrowdStrike follower. #48542 #46072 - Add secret_state config to CEL input for e...
9.3.2 Unknown Features and enhancements Elastic Agent - Fix a bug that could report stopped inputs as still running. #49285 #47769 Filebeat - Add optional token_url support for JWT Bearer Flow in Salesforce input. #43933 #43963 The Sa...
9.3.1 Unknown Features and enhancements Filebeat - Add support for managed identity authentication to the azure-eventhub input. #48655 #48680 - Improve log path sanitization for request trace logging. #48719 - Add descriptions and uni...
9.3.0 Unknown This release also includes: Deprecations. Features and enhancements All - Introduce cloud connectors flow. #47587 - Make beats receivers emit status for their subcomponents. #48015 - Add GUID translation, base DN inferen...
9.2.4 Unknown Features and enhancements Filebeat - Add client secret authentication method for Azure Event Hub and storage in Filebeat. #47256 - Add support for AMQP-over-WebSocket transport in the processor v2. #47956 #47823 Metricbe...
9.2.3 Unknown Features and enhancements All - Make beats receivers emit status for their subcomponents. #48015 - Add GUID translation, base DN inference, and SSPI authentication to LDAP processor. #47827 Filebeat - Log unpublished eve...
9.2.2 Unknown This release also includes: Breaking changes. Features and enhancements All - Include whether Beat is running from a FIPS distribution in User Agent. #47409 Filebeat - Add support for DPoP authentication for the CEL and...
9.2.1 Unknown Features and enhancements Filebeat - Add data stream identification to Fleet health status updates. #47229 Metricbeat - Enhance GCP Billing metricset with additional fields. #47059 Fixes All - Add close to conditional pr...
9.2.0 Unknown Release notes
9.1.5 Unknown Release notes
9.1.4 Unknown Release notes
9.1.3 Unknown Release notes
9.1.1 Unknown Release notes