Filebeat: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Filebeat from Elastic

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-16

What is Filebeat?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementFilebeat is an open source file harvester, mostly used to fetch logs files and feed them into logstash. Together with the libbeat lumberjack output is a replacement for logstash-forwarder.
 

The entire lifecycle of Filebeat

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Filebeat. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Filebeat (Elastic) release, version and end-of-life information
XFilebeat (Elastic) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Filebeat (Elastic)
 

Facts and figures about Filebeat

Product
Filebeat
Vendor
Elastic
Latest version
9.3.3
Number of releases
7
Number of versions
363
Number of unstable versions
31
Number of versions affected by CVE
292
Licence
Apache 2.0, an Apache compatible license, or the Elastic License
 
 

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