How To Install prometheus-alertmanager on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prometheus-alertmanager
on Kali Linux.
What is prometheus-alertmanager
prometheus-alertmanager is:
The Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus server. It takes care of deduplicating, grouping, and routing them to the correct receiver integration such as email, PagerDuty, or OpsGenie. It also takes care of silencing and inhibition of alerts.
There are three methods to install prometheus-alertmanager
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 prometheus-alertmanager Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prometheus-alertmanager
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prometheus-alertmanager
Install prometheus-alertmanager Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prometheus-alertmanager
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prometheus-alertmanager
Install prometheus-alertmanager 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 prometheus-alertmanager
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prometheus-alertmanager
How To Uninstall prometheus-alertmanager on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the prometheus-alertmanager
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prometheus-alertmanager
Uninstall prometheus-alertmanager And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prometheus-alertmanager
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prometheus-alertmanager
Remove prometheus-alertmanager Configurations and Data
To remove prometheus-alertmanager
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prometheus-alertmanager
Remove prometheus-alertmanager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prometheus-alertmanager
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prometheus-alertmanager
Dependencies
prometheus-alertmanager have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prometheus-alertmanager
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.