Filebeat pods keep crashing

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Third Party software Filebeat pods show CrashLoopBackOff or crash intermittently.

Error message in pod logs:

E1029 10:46:22.889366       1 runtime.go:73] Observed a panic: "invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference" (runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference)

Environment

  • OpenShift Container Platform: 3.11
  • FileBeat 7.4 and below

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