The re-creation of a prospector as a condition for checking whether or not to stop or start a processor in the live reloading path causes prospectors to shut down due to error thrown when trying to load file state. This line: elastic/beats/blob/master/libbeat/cfgfile/reload.go#L136 func …

Error when reloading prospectors for filebeat

ruflin (ruflin) April 27, 2017, 1:20pm 8

I opened https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/4128 with a potential fix. I still need to add tests and check it in some more details.

Reloading prospectors results in ERR in Filebeat 5.5.0

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