8.9.0.asciidoc

8.9.0

Review important information about the 8.9.0 release.

Breaking changes

Breaking changes can prevent your application from optimal operation and performance. Before you upgrade, review the breaking changes, then mitigate the impact to your application.

elastic-agent

[[breaking-#2890]] .Status command has been changed

Details

Details
The {agent} status command has been changed so that the default human output now uses a list format and summaries output.

Impact
Full human output can be obtained with the new full option. For for information, refer to {agent-pull}2890[#2890].

New features

The 8.9.0 release adds the following new and notable features.

CLI

• Add the logs subcommand to the agent CLI. {CLI-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2745[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2745] {CLI-issue}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/114[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/114]

elastic-agent

• Support upgrading to specific snapshots by specifying the build ID. {elastic-agent-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2752[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2752]

Enhancements

Universal Profiling

• Add additional elements to support the Universal Profiling integration. {Universal Profiling-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2881[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2881]

elastic-agent

• Lowercase reported hostnames per Elastic Common Schema (ECS) Guidelines for the host.name field.

Bug fixes

elastic-agent

• Change monitoring socket to use a hash of the ID instead of the actual ID. {elastic-agent-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3096[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3096] {elastic-agent-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2912[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2912]

• Fix the drop processor for monitoring component logs to use the component.id instead of the dataset. {elastic-agent-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2982[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2982] {elastic-agent-issue}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2388[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2388]

synthetics

• Update Node version to 18.16.0. {synthetics-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2696[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2696]