Operating System Packages¶
Until configuration management systems made their way into broader markets and many datacenters, one of the most common ways to install
software on Linux servers was to use operating system packages. Debian has DEB, Red Hat has RPM and many other distributions are
based on those or come with own package formats. Online repositories of software packages and corresponding package managers make installing
and configuring new software a matter of a single command and a few minutes of time.
Graylog offers official DEB and RPM package repositories. The packages have been tested on the following operating systems:
- Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
- Debian 8, 9
- RHEL/CentOS 7
The repositories can be setup by installing a single package. Once that’s done the Graylog packages can be installed via apt-get or
yum. The packages can also be downloaded with a web browser at https://packages.graylog2.org/ if needed.
Prerequisites¶
Make sure to install and configure the following software before installing and starting any Graylog services:
- Java (8)
- MongoDB (>= 3.6)
- Elasticsearch (>= 5.x)
警告
Graylog 3.0-alpha does not work with Elasticsearch 6.x yet! (support for version ES 6.x will be in Graylog 3.0 GA)
DEB / APT¶
Download and install graylog-3.0-repository_latest.deb
via dpkg(1) and also make sure that the apt-transport-https package is installed:
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
$ wget https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/packages/graylog-3.0-repository_latest.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i graylog-3.0-repository_latest.deb
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install graylog-server
After the installation completed successfully, Graylog can be started with the following commands. Make sure to use the correct command for your operating system.
| OS | Init System | Command |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 14.04 | upstart | sudo start graylog-server |
| Debian 7 | SysV | sudo service graylog-server start |
| Debian 8, Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 | systemd | sudo systemctl start graylog-server |
The packages are configured to not start any Graylog services during boot. You can use the following commands to start Graylog when the operating system is booting.
| OS | Init System | Command |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 14.04 | upstart | sudo rm -f /etc/init/graylog-server.override |
| Debian 7 | SysV | sudo update-rc.d graylog-server defaults 95 10 |
| Debian 8, Ubuntu 16.06/18.04 | systemd | sudo systemctl enable graylog-server |
Update to latest version¶
If you’ve been using the repository package to install Graylog before, it has to be updated first. The new package will replace the repository URL, without which you will only be able to get bugfix releases of your previously installed version of Graylog.
The update basically works like a fresh installation:
$ wget https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/packages/graylog-3.0-repository_latest.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i graylog-3.0-repository_latest.deb
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install graylog-server
Manual Repository Installation¶
If you don’t like to install the repository DEB to get the repository configuration onto your system, you can do so manually (although we don’t recommend to do that).
First, add the Graylog GPG keyring which is being used to sign the packages to your system.
提示
We assume that you have placed the GPG key into /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/.
Now create a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graylog.list with the following content:
deb https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/debian/ stable 3.0
RPM / YUM / DNF¶
Download and install graylog-3.0-repository_latest.rpm
via rpm(8):
$ sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/packages/graylog-3.0-repository_latest.rpm
$ sudo yum install graylog-server
After the installation completed successfully, Graylog can be started with the following commands. Make sure to use the correct command for your operating system.
| OS | Init System | Command |
|---|---|---|
| CentOS 6 | SysV | sudo service graylog-server start |
| CentOS 7 | systemd | sudo systemctl start graylog-server |
The packages are configured to not start any Graylog services during boot. You can use the following commands to start Graylog when the operating system is booting.
| OS | Init System | Command |
|---|---|---|
| CentOS 6 | SysV | sudo update-rc.d graylog-server defaults 95 10 |
| CentOS 7 | systemd | sudo systemctl enable graylog-server |
Update to latest version¶
If you’ve been using the repository package to install Graylog before, it has to be updated first. The new package will replace the repository URL, without which you will only be able to get bugfix releases of your previously installed version of Graylog.
The update basically works like a fresh installation:
$ sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/packages/graylog-3.0-repository_latest.rpm
$ sudo yum clean all
$ sudo yum install graylog-server
Running yum clean all is required because YUM might use a stale cache and thus might be unable to find the latest version of the graylog-server package.
Manual Repository Installation¶
If you don’t like to install the repository RPM to get the repository configuration onto your system, you can do so manually (although we don’t recommend to do that).
First, add the Graylog GPG key which is being used to sign the packages to your system.
提示
We assume that you have placed the GPG key into /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-graylog.
Now create a file named /etc/yum.repos.d/graylog.repo with the following content:
[graylog]
name=graylog
baseurl=https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/el/stable/3.0/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-graylog
Step-by-step guides¶
Feedback¶
Please file a bug report in the GitHub repository for the operating system packages if you run into any packaging related issues.
If you found this documentation confusing or have more questions, please open an issue in the Github repository for the documentation.