How To Install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data is:
syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, message queues, databases (SQL and NoSQL alike) and more.
Key features:
- receive and send RFC3164 and RFC5424 style syslog messages
- work with any kind of unstructured data
- receive and send JSON formatted messages
- classify and structure logs with builtin parsers (csv-parser(), db-parser(), etc.)
- normalize, crunch and process logs as they flow through the system
- hand on messages for further processing using message queues (like AMQP), files or databases (like PostgreSQL or MongoDB).
This package provides the add-contextual-data module for syslog-ng.
With this module syslog-ng can use an external database file to
append custom name-value pairs on incoming logs (to enrich messages).
The database is a file that containing <selector, name, value>
records.
Currently only CSV
format is supported. It is like geoip parser
where the selector is $HOST
, but the user can define
the selector, and also the database contents.
There are three methods to install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
Install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
Install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
How To Uninstall syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
Uninstall syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
Remove syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data Configurations and Data
To remove syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
Remove syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.