{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/filebeat/issues/229","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/filebeat/issues/229/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/filebeat/issues/229/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/filebeat/issues/229/events","html_url":"https://github.com/elastic/filebeat/issues/229","id":116729659,"number":229,"title":"Make requirement to update logstash-input-beats more obvious","user":{"login":"ruflin","id":244900,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/244900?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin","html_url":"https://github.com/ruflin","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ruflin/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/filebeat/labels/docs","name":"docs","color":"5319e7"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"dedemorton","id":14206422,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14206422?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton","html_url":"https://github.com/dedemorton","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"milestone":null,"comments":11,"created_at":"2015-11-13T09:15:22Z","updated_at":"2016-01-07T00:10:15Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Logstash 2.0.0 ships with the logstash-input-beats version 0.9.2 which is for example incompatible with @timestamp value. In the documentation we should make it much more obvious that currently the plugin has to be updated always, be it 1.5.4 or 2.0.\r\n\r\nI also find it a little bit confusing, that when I download 2.0 and run install, I still have the old version because the plugin already existed. I'm aware that this is default behaviour and makes sense from a technical point of view. But it would be nice to have a notification here at least the the plugin is no the most recent version:\r\n```\r\n$ ./bin/plugin install logstash-input-beats\r\nValidating logstash-input-beats\r\nInstalling logstash-input-beats\r\nInstallation successful\r\n$ ./bin/plugin update logstash-input-beats\r\nUpdating logstash-input-beats\r\nUpdated logstash-input-beats 0.9.2 to 0.9.6\r\n```\r\n\r\n@ph Is there a command that installs the plugin in case it doesn't exist, but updates it if it is already there?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/filebeat/issues/comments/169505015","html_url":"https://github.com/elastic/filebeat/issues/229#issuecomment-169505015","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/filebeat/issues/229","id":169505015,"user":{"login":"dedemorton","id":14206422,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14206422?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton","html_url":"https://github.com/dedemorton","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dedemorton/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-07T00:10:14Z","updated_at":"2016-01-07T00:10:14Z","body":"@ruflin We've added a section here about updating the plugin: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/getting-started.html#logstash-input-update. I think it's fairly obvious now. Can I close this issue, or is there anything else we need to say? "}}