How To Install burrow on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install burrow on Kali Linux.
What is burrow
Burrow is a monitoring companion for Apache Kafka that provides consumer lag checking as a service without the need for specifying thresholds. It monitors committed offsets for all consumers and calculates the status of those consumers on demand.
An HTTP endpoint is provided to request status on demand, as well as provide other Kafka cluster information.
There are also configurable notifiers that can send status out via email or HTTP calls to another service.
There are three ways to install burrow on Kali Linux . We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install burrow Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install burrow using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install burrow
Install burrow Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install burrow using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install burrow
Install burrow 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 Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install burrow using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install burrow
How To Uninstall burrow on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the burrow package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove burrow
Uninstall burrow And Its Dependencies
To uninstall burrow and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove burrow
Remove burrow Configurations and Data
To remove burrow configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge burrow
Remove burrow configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove burrow configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge burrow
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install burrow using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.