How to Install and Uninstall rsyslog-elasticsearch Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "rsyslog-elasticsearch" package

This tutorial shows how to install rsyslog-elasticsearch on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "rsyslog-elasticsearch" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall rsyslog-elasticsearch on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the rsyslog-elasticsearch package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: rsyslog-elasticsearch
Architecture: amd64
Version: 8.2102.0-2ubuntu2
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Source: rsyslog
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Michael Biebl
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 95
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), rsyslog (= 8.2102.0-2ubuntu2)
Filename: pool/universe/r/rsyslog/rsyslog-elasticsearch_8.2102.0-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 20074
MD5sum: b4cd61ae2dd60e1776c97b53e09f244e
SHA1: 02dad9b246c6bed14b90d35be10e45179371211d
SHA256: d6b1ca0f3f963d0ba6aeb509057a5f7bbc91b8f3a63b3f3ceeb0d8f2a4934458
SHA512: 1844a3d27759996b209cb360f35e71efadac384eddb2955babd4d6da30d0fa8be037c1c92fa475aea6f47f6b95df610dd9d80bb3fc8eeddd14a13e8f0f70f8af
Homepage: https://www.rsyslog.com/
Description-en: Elasticsearch output plugin for rsyslog
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.
Description-md5: 70ea8e4a3fd075407bd491943fb8aa9f