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Port details

sysutils/beats8 8.19.21_2

Send logs, network, metrics and heartbeat to Elasticsearch or Logstash (8.x version)

Port info

Maintainer
elastic@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 8.19.21_2
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 8.19.21_2 · d81b7ba3c3
Quarterly
2026Q4: 8.19.21_2 · last MFH 60647eff54
WWW
https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install beats8
installs 8.19.21_2 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 8.19.21_2
Port
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/beats8 && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/sysutils/beats8 config  # change options first
Size
53 MiB download · 267 MiB installed
Depends on
nothing
License
APACHE20
Options
3 of 5 on in the package: FILEBEAT HEARTBEAT METRICBEAT
Show the 2 options that are off
AUDITBEAT PACKETBEAT
pkg-message
Shown after installing
The modules.d and monitors.d files are now installed into
/usr/local/share/examples/beats

See UPDATING file in ports top level directory for list of breaking changes.

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 168.19.21_28.19.21_1–
FreeBSD 158.19.21_28.19.21_1–
FreeBSD 148.19.21_28.19.21_18.19.21_2

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 158.19.21_28.19.21_1–
FreeBSD 148.19.21_28.19.21_18.19.21_2

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 8.19.21_2.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (59)

Juraj Lutter (otis) · 8.6.2
sysutils/beats8: Update to 8.6.2

Release notes:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/8.6/release-notes-8.6.2.html
5ed5b05a25
Dmitri Goutnik (dmgk) · 8.6.1_2
all: Bump PORTREVISION after lang/go{119,120} update
56b5ec772f
Dmitri Goutnik (dmgk) · 8.6.1_1
all: Bump PORTREVISION after GO_DEFAULT update.
2297efc51b
Juraj Lutter (otis) · 8.6.1
sysutils/beats8: Update to 8.6.1

Release notes:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/8.6/release-notes-8.6.1.html
d8db8b167e
Dmitri Goutnik (dmgk) · 8.6.0_1
all: Bump PORTVERSION after lang/go{118,119} update
3b383d833a
Juraj Lutter (otis) · 8.6.0
sysutils/beats8: Update to 8.6.0

Release notes:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/8.6/release-notes-8.6.0.html
ec11810a0d
Juraj Lutter (otis) · 8.5.3
sysutils/beats8: Update to 8.5.3

Release notes:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/release-notes-8.5.3.html
ecee5d2dd3
Dmitri Goutnik (dmgk) · 8.5.2_1
all: Bump PORTREVISION after lang/go{118,119} update
d9ad1002d5
Juraj Lutter (otis) · 8.5.2
sysutils/beats8: New port

Add sysutils/beats8, beats component for ELK 8.x.

There are many breaking changes in 8.x versions, see
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/8.5/breaking-changes-8.0.html
for details.

Release notes for ELK 8.x are located here:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/8.5/release-notes.html
c7e874cca9