How To Install prometheus-nginx-exporter on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prometheus-nginx-exporter on Kali Linux.

What is prometheus-nginx-exporter

prometheus-nginx-exporter is:

Official Prometheus exporter for NGINX, developed by NGINX, Inc. This exporter supports the NGINX stub_status handler, as well as the NGINX Plus API, and exposes metrics such as number of current requests and total requests served.

There are three methods to install prometheus-nginx-exporter 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-nginx-exporter 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-nginx-exporter using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install prometheus-nginx-exporter

Install prometheus-nginx-exporter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install prometheus-nginx-exporter using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install prometheus-nginx-exporter

Install prometheus-nginx-exporter 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-nginx-exporter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install prometheus-nginx-exporter

How To Uninstall prometheus-nginx-exporter on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the prometheus-nginx-exporter package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove prometheus-nginx-exporter

Uninstall prometheus-nginx-exporter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove prometheus-nginx-exporter

Remove prometheus-nginx-exporter Configurations and Data

To remove prometheus-nginx-exporter configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge prometheus-nginx-exporter

Remove prometheus-nginx-exporter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove prometheus-nginx-exporter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prometheus-nginx-exporter

Dependencies

prometheus-nginx-exporter have the following dependencies:

• init-system-helpers
• adduser
• libc6

References

• prometheus-nginx-exporter website

Summary

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