How To Install mtail on Debian 10

Learn how to install mtail on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mtail is Extract monitoring data from logs for collection in a timeseries database

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mtail on Debian 10.

What is mtail

mtail is:

Mtail is a tool for extracting metrics from application logs to be exported into a timeseries database or timeseries calculator for alerting and dashboarding.

It aims to fill a niche between applications that do not export their own internal state, and existing monitoring systems, without patching those applications or rewriting the same framework for custom extraction glue code.

Metrics are exported for scraping by a collector as JSON or Prometheus format over HTTP, or can be periodically sent to a collectd, StatsD, or Graphite collector socket.

There are three methods to install mtail on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mtail Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mtail using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mtail

Install mtail Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mtail using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mtail

Install mtail 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mtail using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mtail

How To Uninstall mtail on Debian 10

To uninstall only the mtail package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mtail

Uninstall mtail And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mtail and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mtail

Remove mtail Configurations and Data

To remove mtail configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mtail

Remove mtail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mtail configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mtail

Dependencies

mtail have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mtail package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.