How To Install mtail on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mtail on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mtail
mtail is:
Mtail is a tool for extracting metrics from application logs to be exported into a timeseries database or timeseries calculator for alerting and dashboarding.
It aims to fill a niche between applications that do not export their own internal state, and existing monitoring systems, without patching those applications or rewriting the same framework for custom extraction glue code.
Metrics are exported for scraping by a collector as JSON or Prometheus format over HTTP, or can be periodically sent to a collectd, StatsD, or Graphite collector socket.
There are three methods to install mtail 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 mtail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mtail using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mtail
Install mtail Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mtail using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mtail
Install mtail 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 mtail using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mtail
How To Uninstall mtail on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mtail package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mtail
Uninstall mtail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mtail and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mtail
Remove mtail Configurations and Data
To remove mtail configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mtail
Remove mtail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mtail configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mtail
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mtail package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
