Centos7 is reported as RHEL by MB/FB

[EricDavisX]

I'm seeing Centos7 OS reported as the wrong OS RHEL (not surprising right, but its not technically true). I looked for existing bugs and discuss topics but seeing none have logged it for review.

For confirmed bugs, please report:

• Version: 7.8 Build Candidate 2
• Operating System: Centos7
• Discuss Forum URL: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-m-seeing-centos7-os-reported-as-wrong-os-rhel-not-surprising-but-is-that-expected-beat-behavior/233206
• Steps to Reproduce:

1. set up a centos 7 vm
2. install the Alpha BC 2 Stack and Fleet etc.
3. deploy the Agent to the centos image and it will return as noted. see this image:
   

I was using older infrastructure to reproduce it, let me know if you don't see this on other CentoS public images!

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/ingest-management (Team:Ingest Management)

[ph]

This is an issue with go-sysinfo, this is the same library that we use to collect metrics inside metricbeat.

I don't think its high priority, because as you said it's not totally false :)

@andresc I would be tempted to reassign that issues to another team, but I am not sure where it fall.

IIRC @andrewkroh initially created it and I see that @fearful-symmetry committed and fixed a few issues.

[andrewkroh]

What data backs that UI? Can you share a raw JSON document showing the data?

The host.os.family should be redhat and the host.os.platform should be centos. This is the test case we have for centos 7:

https://github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo/blob/2e4263c5c548ff5352fd86b0a29330fb08b5c98f/providers/linux/os_test.go#L69-L76

[ph]

oh we indeed incorrectly use Platform: info.OS.Family

nevermind thanks @andrewkroh, that would be one line to fix.