Beats 7.4.0, the latest stable release by Elastic, introduces enhanced features for data ingestion and expanded platform support. It includes new scalable consumption methods from AWS S3 and Kafka, with Filebeat 7.4.0 offering a beta S3 input for ingesting raw log lines and a Kafka input for data consumption from Kafka topics and Azure Event Hubs. Functionbeat has undergone enterprise hardening for AWS integrations, with added support for Logstash outputs and a new CloudWatch Logs Kinesis function type for centralized log monitoring. The release also extends support to platforms like RHEL 8, Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu 18.04, and Windows Server 2019, allowing broader data collection capabilities. Additionally, new modules across Observability and SIEM domains include Filebeat modules for IBM MQ and S3 server access logs, new metricsets and dashboards for Metricbeat, and enhanced SIEM features like the rewritten Auditbeat Socket dataset and new modules for CEF and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense.