How To Install rsyslog-elasticsearch on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-elasticsearch on Kali Linux.

What is rsyslog-elasticsearch

rsyslog-elasticsearch is:

This plugin allows rsyslog to write syslog messages to Elasticsearch, a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents.

There are three methods to install rsyslog-elasticsearch 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 rsyslog-elasticsearch Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rsyslog-elasticsearch

Install rsyslog-elasticsearch Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rsyslog-elasticsearch

Install rsyslog-elasticsearch 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 rsyslog-elasticsearch using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rsyslog-elasticsearch

How To Uninstall rsyslog-elasticsearch on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the rsyslog-elasticsearch package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rsyslog-elasticsearch

Uninstall rsyslog-elasticsearch And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rsyslog-elasticsearch

Remove rsyslog-elasticsearch Configurations and Data

To remove rsyslog-elasticsearch configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rsyslog-elasticsearch

Remove rsyslog-elasticsearch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rsyslog-elasticsearch

Dependencies

rsyslog-elasticsearch have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcurl3-gnutls
• rsyslog

References

• rsyslog-elasticsearch website

Summary

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