How To Install rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64

This module provides the capability for rsyslog to feed logs directly into Elasticsearch.

We can use yum to install rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64.

Install rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64

How To Uninstall rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64

rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/rsyslog/omelasticsearch.so

References

• rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-elasticsearch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.