Windows Install should use the latest available 7.x binaires for Winlogbeat and Filebeat (or if supported 8.x)

[drewmiranda-gl]

Problem description

The windows release for Graylog-sidecar includes the following binaries:

• filebeat, Ver 7.11.1, released February 17, 2021
• winlogbeat, Ver 7.11.1, released February 17, 2021

Can these be updated to the latest 7.x?

Also is there a specific reason why 8.x can't be used? (hopefully this isn't too naive of a question, i've not researched this topic)

Happy to discuss further, feel free to ping me.

[boosty]

Related: https://github.com/Graylog2/collector-sidecar/issues/426

[drewmiranda-gl]

Is it possible to get this on a roadmap at some point? I'm anticipating (hoping 🤞) elastic releases a fix for https://github.com/Graylog2/collector-sidecar/issues/449 in their next release of Winlogbeat. If they do, Graylog collector still will contain this issue unless updated.

[mpfz0r]

now that we fixed the source field problem with newer beats*, we can try and look into updating winlog and filebeat

• see https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/pull/13895

@boosty @thll

[ITJamie]

bumping this. graylog has supported the 8.x collectors since https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/pull/13895 was merged. the old winlogbeat in the sidecar is an issue on new windows installs