Support elastic/beats v6 and/or v7

[ecc256]

Guys,
Any plans to make it compatible with elastic/beats version 7.0 (alpha) or latest 6.* at least?

[phillbaker]

Hi @ecc256, thanks for opening the issue. We will likely upgrade this beat, but can't give a timeline. If you'd like to submit a PR, we'd happily review and merge.

My guess is that based on the breaking changes list, it wouldn't be too bad. We'd need to update the dependencies:

https://github.com/narmitech/cloudwatchmetricbeat/blob/a1162cf17f4b3f61d0f6413518fd4a28435d7234/glide.yaml#L4

and potentially make some code changes.

[ecc256]

Phillip,
I did it already.
I straggle with getting stats for 2 or more dimensions at once in single GetMetricStatistics() call now.
According to docs it should be possible, but it returns data points to the last dimension only.
Same exact behaviors from go and aws cli script.

aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics --metric-name CPUUtilization ^
  --start-time 2018-07-29T00:00:00Z ^
  --end-time   2018-07-29T06:00:00Z ^
  --period 3600 --namespace AWS/EC2 ^
  --statistics Average ^
  --dimensions Name=InstanceId,Value=i-abcd Name=InstanceId,Value=i-ifgh

returns data points for InstanceId=i-ifgh only
I assume it’s not possible as there is no way to tell, what dimension a data point belongs to?

[phillbaker]

Ah, would you mind opening a separate issue for that? We've had that feature request internally as well.

As well, would you mind forking this repo and pushing your work to that fork so that we can take a look?

[ecc256]

Ah, would you mind opening a separate issue for that? We've had that feature request internally as well.

Will do.

As well, would you mind forking this repo and pushing your work to that fork so that we can take a look?

It’s nothing to push as of now.
I’m testing it from standalone go program, not related to beats.

Could you check if aws cli command I posted returns stats for 2 dimensions, please?
Want to make sure, it’s not just me...

[jasonlang80]

@ecc256 if you have a branch or fork where you are already working on the v6 of this beat please let me know. I will try and clear some time to help with it.