How To Install rsyslog-elasticsearch on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-elasticsearch on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is rsyslog-elasticsearch
rsyslog-elasticsearch is:
This plugin allows rsyslog to write syslog messages to Elasticsearch, a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents.
Package: rsyslog-elasticsearch Architecture: amd64 Version: 8.2001.0-1ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Source: rsyslog Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Michael Biebl [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 94 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), rsyslog (= 8.2001.0-1ubuntu1) Filename: pool/universe/r/rsyslog/rsyslog-elasticsearch_8.2001.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 19004 MD5sum: ee0bd76c4dde25910e02690dfa4a72fd SHA1: d2a17b8d045b56e18c0a1cb59b63e2c7e87179a3 SHA256: 97111735100a7ebabf44e53aa55e7a9c3a3ef091560379f4b63443819df91f80 Homepage: http://www.rsyslog.com/ Description-en: Elasticsearch output plugin for rsyslog This plugin allows rsyslog to write syslog messages to Elasticsearch, a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents.
There are three methods to install rsyslog-elasticsearch on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rsyslog-elasticsearch Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rsyslog-elasticsearch using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rsyslog-elasticsearch
Install rsyslog-elasticsearch Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rsyslog-elasticsearch using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rsyslog-elasticsearch
Install rsyslog-elasticsearch Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install rsyslog-elasticsearch using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rsyslog-elasticsearch
How To Uninstall rsyslog-elasticsearch on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the rsyslog-elasticsearch package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rsyslog-elasticsearch
Uninstall rsyslog-elasticsearch And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rsyslog-elasticsearch and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rsyslog-elasticsearch
Remove rsyslog-elasticsearch Configurations and Data
To remove rsyslog-elasticsearch configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rsyslog-elasticsearch
Remove rsyslog-elasticsearch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rsyslog-elasticsearch configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rsyslog-elasticsearch
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-elasticsearch package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
