Cherry-pick #16116 to 7.x: [Journalbeat] Improve parsing of syslog.pid in journalbeat to strip the username when present #16213
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Cherry-pick of PR #16116 to 7.x branch. Original message:
What does this PR do?
Fixes an issue where syslog.pid is reported as an integer followed by the username.
Why is it important?
In some cases journald reports the syslog.pid with the user that started the pid following it. This strips the username and only sends the pid in the event.
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[ ] I have made corresponding change to the default configuration filesAuthor's Checklist
How to test this PR locally
I was unable to reproduce this issue with journald on Ubuntu 19.10. But was able to reproduce the failure using a unit test, so best way to test is just by running the unit tests.
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