diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index a1d49d7da28..48520f33b07 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -65,6 +65,34 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 - Fixes "Can only start an input when all related states are finished" error when running under Elastic-Agent {pull}35250[35250] {issue}33653[33653]
 - [system] sync system/auth dataset with system integration 1.29.0. {pull}35581[35581]
 - [GCS Input] - Fixed an issue where bucket_timeout was being applied to the entire bucket poll interval and not individual bucket object read operations. Fixed a map write concurrency issue arising from data races when using a high number of workers. Fixed the flaky tests that were present in the GCS test suit. {pull}35605[35605]
+- Fix filestream false positive log error "filestream input with ID 'xyz' already exists" {issue}31767[31767]
+- Fix error message formatting from filestream input. {pull}35658[35658]
+- Fix error when trying to use `include_message` parser {issue}35440[35440]
+- Fix handling of IPv6 unspecified addresses in TCP input. {issue}35064[35064] {pull}35637[35637]
+- Fixed a minor code error in the GCS input scheduler where a config value was being used directly instead of the source struct. {pull}35729[35729]
+- Improve error reporting and fix IPv6 handling of TCP and UDP metric collection. {pull}35772[35772]
+- Fix CEL input JSON marshalling of nested objects. {issue}35763[35763] {pull}35774[35774]
+- Fix metric collection in GCPPubSub input. {pull}35773[35773]
+- Fix end point deregistration in http_endpoint input. {issue}35899[35899] {pull}35903[35903]
+- Fix duplicate ID panic in filestream metrics. {issue}35964[35964] {pull}35972[35972]
+- Improve error reporting and fix IPv6 handling of TCP and UDP metric collection. {pull}35996[35996]
+- Fix handling of NUL-terminated log lines in Fortinet Firewall module. {issue}36026[36026] {pull}36027[36027]
+- Make redact field configuration recommended in CEL input and log warning if missing. {pull}36008[36008]
+- Fix handling of region name configuration in awss3 input {pull}36034[36034]
+- Fixed concurrency and flakey tests issue in azure blob storage input. {issue}35983[35983] {pull}36124[36124]
+- Fix panic when sqs input metrics getter is invoked {pull}36101[36101] {issue}36077[36077]
+- Make CEL input's `now` global variable static for evaluation lifetime. {pull}36107[36107]
+- Update mito CEL extension library to v1.5.0. {pull}36146[36146]
+- Filter out duplicate paths resolved from matching globs. {issue}36253[36253] {pull}36256[36256]
+- Fix handling of TCP/UDP address resolution during metric initialization. {issue}35064[35064] {pull}36287[36287]
+- Fix handling of Juniper SRX structured data when there is no leading junos element. {issue}36270[36270] {pull}36308[36308]
+- Remove erroneous error log in GCPPubSub input. {pull}36296[36296]
+- Fix Filebeat Cisco module with missing escape character {issue}36325[36325] {pull}36326[36326]
+- Fix panic when redact option is not provided to CEL input. {issue}36387[36387] {pull}36388[36388]
+- Remove 'onFilteredOut' and 'onDroppedOnPublish' callback logs {issue}36299[36299] {pull}36399[36399]
+- Added a fix for Crowdstrike pipeline handling process arrays {pull}36496[36496]
+- Ensure winlog input retains metric collection when handling recoverable errors. {issue}36479[36479] {pull}36483[36483]
+- Revert error introduced in {pull}35734[35734] when symlinks can't be resolved in filestream. {pull}36557[36557]
 
 *Heartbeat*
 
diff --git a/filebeat/input/filestream/fswatch.go b/filebeat/input/filestream/fswatch.go
index 39d0275cfef..8986794340d 100644
--- a/filebeat/input/filestream/fswatch.go
+++ b/filebeat/input/filestream/fswatch.go
@@ -441,7 +441,8 @@ func (s *fileScanner) getIngestTarget(filename string) (it ingestTarget, err err
 
 		it.originalFilename, err = filepath.EvalSymlinks(it.filename)
 		if err != nil {
-			return it, fmt.Errorf("failed to resolve the symlink %q: %w", it.filename, err)
+			s.log.Debugf("finding path to original file has failed %s: %+v", it.filename, err)
+			it.originalFilename = it.filename
 		}
 
 		if s.isFileExcluded(it.originalFilename) {