set path.home for beat receivers to be components dir (#11726) (#11735)

(cherry picked from commit 7096b95)

Co-authored-by: Lee E Hinman <[email protected]>

Author: mergify[bot]

changelog/fragments/1765388410-set-path.home-for-beat-receivers.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# REQUIRED
+# Kind can be one of:
+# - breaking-change: a change to previously-documented behavior
+# - deprecation: functionality that is being removed in a later release
+# - bug-fix: fixes a problem in a previous version
+# - enhancement: extends functionality but does not break or fix existing behavior
+# - feature: new functionality
+# - known-issue: problems that we are aware of in a given version
+# - security: impacts on the security of a product or a user’s deployment.
+# - upgrade: important information for someone upgrading from a prior version
+# - other: does not fit into any of the other categories
+kind: bug-fix
+
+# REQUIRED for all kinds
+# Change summary; a 80ish characters long description of the change.
+summary: set path.home for beat receivers to components directory
+
+# REQUIRED for breaking-change, deprecation, known-issue
+# Long description; in case the summary is not enough to describe the change
+# this field accommodate a description without length limits.
+# description:
+
+# REQUIRED for breaking-change, deprecation, known-issue
+# impact:
+
+# REQUIRED for breaking-change, deprecation, known-issue
+# action:
+
+# REQUIRED for all kinds
+# Affected component; usually one of "elastic-agent", "fleet-server", "filebeat", "metricbeat", "auditbeat", "all", etc.
+component: elastic-agent
+
+# AUTOMATED
+# OPTIONAL to manually add other PR URLs
+# PR URL: A link the PR that added the changeset.
+# If not present is automatically filled by the tooling finding the PR where this changelog fragment has been added.
+# NOTE: the tooling supports backports, so it's able to fill the original PR number instead of the backport PR number.
+# Please provide it if you are adding a fragment for a different PR.
+# pr: https://github.com/owner/repo/1234
+pr: https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/11726
+
+# AUTOMATED
+# OPTIONAL to manually add other issue URLs
+# Issue URL; optional; the GitHub issue related to this changeset (either closes or is part of).
+# If not present is automatically filled by the tooling with the issue linked to the PR number.
+# issue: https://github.com/owner/repo/1234
+issue: https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/48010

internal/pkg/otel/translate/otelconfig.go

@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ func getReceiversConfigForComponent(
 		},
 		// just like we do for beats processes, each receiver needs its own data path
 		"path": map[string]any{
+			"home": paths.Components(),
 			"data": BeatDataPath(comp.ID),
 		},
 		// adds additional context on logs emitted by beatreceivers to uniquely identify per component logs
@@ -647,7 +648,6 @@ func BeatDataPath(componentId string) string {
 // getBeatsAuthExtensionConfig sets http transport settings on beatsauth
 // currently this is only supported for elasticsearch output
 func getBeatsAuthExtensionConfig(outputCfg *config.C) (map[string]any, error) {
-
 	authSettings := beatsauthextension.BeatsAuthConfig{
 		Transport: elasticsearch.ESDefaultTransportSettings(),
 	}

internal/pkg/otel/translate/otelconfig_test.go

@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ func TestGetOtelConfig(t *testing.T) {
 				"otelconsumer": map[string]any{},
 			},
 			"path": map[string]any{
+				"home": paths.Components(),
 				"data": filepath.Join(paths.Run(), id),
 			},
 			"queue": map[string]any{
@@ -747,6 +748,7 @@ func TestGetOtelConfig(t *testing.T) {
 							"otelconsumer": map[string]any{},
 						},
 						"path": map[string]any{
+							"home": paths.Components(),
 							"data": filepath.Join(paths.Run(), "beat-metrics-monitoring"),
 						},
 						"queue": map[string]any{
@@ -858,6 +860,7 @@ func TestGetOtelConfig(t *testing.T) {
 							"otelconsumer": map[string]any{},
 						},
 						"path": map[string]any{
+							"home": paths.Components(),
 							"data": filepath.Join(paths.Run(), "system-metrics"),
 						},
 						"queue": map[string]any{