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Patches for Graylog Sidecar EXE
Windows
5 patches available
The Graylog Sidecar is a supervisor process for 3rd party log collectors like NXLog and filebeat. The Sidecar program is able to fetch and validate configuration files from a Graylog server for various log collectors. You can think of it like a centralized configuration and process management system for your log collectors.
GrayLog SideCar EXE Version 1.5.1
Release Date
3/27/2025
Bug Fix?
No
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

1.5.1 Latest$$$@garybot2 garybot2 released this last week$$$· 8 commits to master since this release$$$ 1.5.1 $$$ 6bb259f $$$Added$$$Add MSI packages for Windows. collector-sidecar#50 collector-sidecar#507
GrayLog SideCar EXE Version 1.5.0
Release Date
10/26/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Graylog Sidecar 1.5.0$$$Released: 2023-10-26$$$$$$Added$$$Bundle Filebeat and Auditbeat for Linux. Add default tag to config file. graylog2-server#15570 collector-sidecar#472$$$Add operating system packages for Linux ARM64. collector-sidecar#480$$$Changed$$$Update shipped beats collectors to verion 8.9.0 collector-sidecar#426 collector-sidecar#437 collector-sidecar#476$$$Update to Golang 1.21.$$$Fixed$$$Match collector_binaries_accesslist case insensitive on Windows and MacOS. collector-sidecar#364 collector-sidecar#467$$$Avoid stopping collectors if a Graylog cluster behind load balancers is partly shut down. collector-sidecar#481 collector-sidecar#482$$$Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.5.0
GrayLog SideCar EXE Version 1.4.0
Release Date
1/13/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Added$$$Provide a new configuration option collector_shutdown_timeout:10s to determine how long to wait before sending a SIGKILL when shutting down collector processes. collector-sidecar#463 collector-sidecar#462$$$Provide -TAGS= support for windows silent installer collector-sidecar#460 collector-sidecar#464$$$Changed$$$Terminate collector processes with SIGTERM instead of SIGHUP. collector-sidecar#463 collector-sidecar#462$$$Terminate collector processes by killing the process group instead of just the PID. collector-sidecar#463 collector-sidecar#462$$$Fixed$$$Make collector shutdown handling more resilient to hanging child processes. collector-sidecar#463 collector-sidecar#462
GrayLog SideCar EXE Version 1.3.0
Release Date
12/6/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Added$$$Add a sidecar build for M1 based Macs collector-sidecar#428$$$Add support for multiple configurations on a single collector collector-sidecar#441$$$Add tagging support to sidecars collector-sidecar#441$$$Add upgrade support and improve Sidecar installer for Windows collector-sidecar#365 collector-sidecar#432 collector-sidecar#447$$$Changed$$$Make collector validation timeout configurable collector-sidecar#431 collector-sidecar#435$$$Notes$$$Graylog 5.0 is required on the server side to use the new configuration tagging feature.$$$$$$Full Changelog: 1.2.0...1.3.0
GrayLog SideCar EXE Version 1.2.0
Release Date
7/2/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Added$$$Add version info to Windows executable (#417)$$$Add build support for Apple M1 silicon (#428; not included in packaging yet)$$$Fixed$$$Fix startup issue on FreeBSD (#423)$$$Fix service startup issues on Windows (#421; #425)$$$Fix node ID creation on Windows (#424)$$$Dont remove collector configurations if requests to the Graylog server are not successful (#413; #427)
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