Add automatic retries and exponential backoff to Filebeat httpjson input

CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc

@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v7.0.0-alpha2...master[Check the HEAD d
 - Add support for v1 consumer API in Cloud Foundry input, use it by default. {pull}19125[19125]
 - Explicitly set ECS version in all Filebeat modules. {pull}19198[19198]
 - Add new mode to multiline reader to aggregate constant number of lines {pull}18352[18352]
+- Add automatic retries and exponential backoff to httpjson input. {pull}18956[18956]
 
 *Heartbeat*
 

go.mod

@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway v1.13.0 // indirect
 	github.com/h2non/filetype v1.0.12
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.0
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp v0.6.6
 	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.2-0.20190520140433-59383c442f7d // indirect
 	github.com/insomniacslk/dhcp v0.0.0-20180716145214-633285ba52b2
 	github.com/jmoiron/sqlx v1.2.1-0.20190826204134-d7d95172beb5

go.sum

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