The Beats 7.3.0 release introduces significant enhancements across several areas to expand its data source ecosystem and improve automation and monitoring capabilities. A key feature is the automation of Functionbeat deployment through CloudFormation templates, facilitating smoother integration with automation systems. The release also sees the introduction of a new Google Cloud module in Filebeat for monitoring VPC flow logs and a Google Pub/Sub input for event ingestion, both aimed at enhancing real-time analytics. Metricbeat now supports three additional databases, including Oracle, Amazon RDS, and CockroachDB, while also improving Kubernetes observability with new metricsets that cover various Kubernetes components. A novel approach to creating Metricbeat modules, known as light modules, has been introduced to simplify the process without requiring Go code. These updates, alongside enhancements in Elastic APM, Elastic Uptime, and Elastic Logs, mark a significant step forward in the capabilities of the Elastic Stack, catering to real-time analytics, database monitoring, and infrastructure observability.