I seem to get a similar issue with journalbeat 7.5 (seems to be the latest supported by the distro).
[root@XenonKiloCranberry:/var/lib/journalbeat/logs]# cat journalbeat
2020-06-15T19:48:38.470+0100 INFO instance/beat.go:610 Home path: [/nix/store/j8qdszj53fmwhykk41wpiyb1fpap1g8p-journalbeat-7.5.1-bin/bin] Config path: [/nix/store/j8qdszj53fmwhykk41wpiyb1fpap1g8p-journalbeat-7.5.1-bin/bin] Data path: [/var/lib/journalbeat/data] Logs path: [/var/lib/journalbeat/logs]
2020-06-15T19:48:38.471+0100 INFO instance/beat.go:618 Beat ID: 5fd1bd17-1bf6-4c14-abb9-7447f92ec5e0
2020-06-15T19:48:38.471+0100 INFO [seccomp] seccomp/seccomp.go:124 Syscall filter successfully installed
2020-06-15T19:48:38.471+0100 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:941 Beat info {"system_info": {"beat": {"path": {"config": "/nix/store/j8qdszj53fmwhykk41wpiyb1fpap1g8p-journalbeat-7.5.1-bin/bin", "data": "/var/lib/journalbeat/data", "home": "/nix/store/j8qdszj53fmwhykk41wpiyb1fpap1g8p-journalbeat-7.5.1-bin/bin", "logs": "/var/lib/journalbeat/logs"}, "type": "journalbeat", "uuid": "5fd1bd17-1bf6-4c14-abb9-7447f92ec5e0"}}}
2020-06-15T19:48:38.471+0100 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:950 Build info {"system_info": {"build": {"commit": "unknown", "libbeat": "7.5.1", "time": "1754-08-30T22:43:41.128Z", "version": "7.5.1"}}}
2020-06-15T19:48:38.471+0100 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:953 Go runtime info {"system_info": {"go": {"os":"linux","arch":"amd64","max_procs":2,"version":"go1.14.1"}}}
2020-06-15T19:48:38.472+0100 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:957 Host info {"system_info": {"host": {"architecture":"x86_64","boot_time":"2020-06-12T21:23:07+01:00","containerized":false,"name":"XenonKiloCranberry","ip":["127.0.0.1/8","::1/128","94.130.178.87/32","fe80::9400:ff:fe43:4fd/64","172.17.0.1/16","fe80::d017:8ff:fea7:a3d8/64","10.100.0.1/24","fe80::5853:84ff:fecc:a997/64","fe80::e857:82ff:fecf:136f/64"],"kernel_version":"4.19.105","mac":["96:00:00:43:04:fd","d2:17:08:a7:a3:d8","5a:53:84:cc:a9:97","ea:57:82:cf:13:6f"],"os":{"family":"","platform":"nixos","name":"NixOS","version":"20.03.2133.8946799e079 (Markhor)","major":20,"minor":3,"patch":2133,"codename":"markhor"},"timezone":"BST","timezone_offset_sec":3600,"id":"3b69b17f9bc74de2900b86176785b839"}}}
2020-06-15T19:48:38.473+0100 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:986 Process info {"system_info": {"process": {"capabilities": {"inheritable":null,"permitted":["chown","dac_override","dac_read_search","fowner","fsetid","kill","setgid","setuid","setpcap","linux_immutable","net_bind_service","net_broadcast","net_admin","net_raw","ipc_lock","ipc_owner","sys_module","sys_rawio","sys_chroot","sys_ptrace","sys_pacct","sys_admin","sys_boot","sys_nice","sys_resource","sys_time","sys_tty_config","mknod","lease","audit_write","audit_control","setfcap","mac_override","mac_admin","syslog","wake_alarm","block_suspend","audit_read"],"effective":["chown","dac_override","dac_read_search","fowner","fsetid","kill","setgid","setuid","setpcap","linux_immutable","net_bind_service","net_broadcast","net_admin","net_raw","ipc_lock","ipc_owner","sys_module","sys_rawio","sys_chroot","sys_ptrace","sys_pacct","sys_admin","sys_boot","sys_nice","sys_resource","sys_time","sys_tty_config","mknod","lease","audit_write","audit_control","setfcap","mac_override","mac_admin","syslog","wake_alarm","block_suspend","audit_read"],"bounding":["chown","dac_override","dac_read_search","fowner","fsetid","kill","setgid","setuid","setpcap","linux_immutable","net_bind_service","net_broadcast","net_admin","net_raw","ipc_lock","ipc_owner","sys_module","sys_rawio","sys_chroot","sys_ptrace","sys_pacct","sys_admin","sys_boot","sys_nice","sys_resource","sys_time","sys_tty_config","mknod","lease","audit_write","audit_control","setfcap","mac_override","mac_admin","syslog","wake_alarm","block_suspend","audit_read"],"ambient":null}, "cwd": "/", "exe": "/nix/store/j8qdszj53fmwhykk41wpiyb1fpap1g8p-journalbeat-7.5.1-bin/bin/journalbeat", "name": "journalbeat", "pid": 24434, "ppid": 1, "seccomp": {"mode":"filter","no_new_privs":true}, "start_time": "2020-06-15T19:48:37.560+0100"}}}
2020-06-15T19:48:38.473+0100 INFO instance/beat.go:297 Setup Beat: journalbeat; Version: 7.5.1
2020-06-15T19:48:38.473+0100 INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:182 Set output.elasticsearch.index to 'journalbeat-7.5.1' as ILM is enabled.
2020-06-15T19:48:38.473+0100 INFO elasticsearch/client.go:171 Elasticsearch url: http://localhost:9200
2020-06-15T19:48:38.474+0100 INFO [publisher] pipeline/module.go:97 Beat name: journalbeat
2020-06-15T19:48:38.474+0100 WARN [cfgwarn] beater/journalbeat.go:53 EXPERIMENTAL: Journalbeat is experimental.
2020-06-15T19:48:38.477+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:118 Starting metrics logging every 30s
2020-06-15T19:48:38.477+0100 INFO instance/beat.go:429 journalbeat start running.
2020-06-15T19:48:38.477+0100 INFO [journalbeat] beater/journalbeat.go:91 journalbeat is running! Hit CTRL-C to stop it.
2020-06-15T19:48:38.477+0100 INFO [journalbeat] beater/journalbeat.go:116 journalbeat is stopping
2020-06-15T19:48:38.479+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":10,"time":{"ms":13}},"total":{"ticks":30,"time":{"ms":43},"value":30},"user":{"ticks":20,"time":{"ms":30}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":524288,"soft":1024},"open":8},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"b29315a5-908c-4c3e-82e8-bf44acc59336","uptime":{"ms":25}},"memstats":{"gc_next":4958960,"memory_alloc":2968024,"memory_total":5332384,"rss":33562624},"runtime":{"goroutines":12}},"journalbeat":{"libbeat":{"output":{"type":"elasticsearch"}},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":2},"load":{"1":1.42,"15":0.81,"5":1.74,"norm":{"1":0.71,"15":0.405,"5":0.87}}}}}}}
2020-06-15T19:48:38.479+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:154 Uptime: 27.145317ms
2020-06-15T19:48:38.479+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:131 Stopping metrics logging.
2020-06-15T19:48:38.479+0100 INFO instance/beat.go:435 journalbeat stopped.