How To Install elastalert on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install elastalert on Kali Linux. elastalert is easy and flexible alerting with Elasticsearch

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elastalert on Kali Linux.

What is elastalert

elastalert is:

This package contains a simple framework for alerting on anomalies, spikes, or other patterns of interest from data in Elasticsearch.

ElastAlert works with all versions of Elasticsearch.

If you have data being written into Elasticsearch in near real time and want to be alerted when that data matches certain patterns, ElastAlert is the tool for you.

ElastAlert is designed to be reliable, highly modular, and easy to set up and configure.

It works by combining Elasticsearch with two types of components, rule types and alerts. Elasticsearch is periodically queried and the data is passed to the rule type, which determines when a match is found. When a match occurs, it is given to one or more alerts, which take action based on the match.

This is configured by a set of rules, each of which defines a query, a rule type, and a set of alerts. .

There are three methods to install elastalert 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 elastalert Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install elastalert

Install elastalert Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elastalert

Install elastalert Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux 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 elastalert using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elastalert

How To Uninstall elastalert on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove elastalert

Uninstall elastalert And Its Dependencies

To uninstall elastalert and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elastalert

Remove elastalert Configurations and Data

To remove elastalert configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elastalert

Remove elastalert configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elastalert

Dependencies

elastalert have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elastalert package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.