Installing Logstash
editInstalling Logstash
editInstalling from a Downloaded Binary
editThe Logstash binaries are available from https://www.elastic.co/downloads. Download the Logstash installation file for your host environment—TARG.GZ, DEB, ZIP, or RPM.
Unpack the file. Do not install Logstash into a directory path that contains colon (:) characters.
These packages are free to use under the Elastic license. They contain open source and free commercial features and access to paid commercial features. Start a 30-day trial to try out all of the paid commercial features. See the Subscriptions page for information about Elastic license levels.
Alternatively, you can download an oss package, which contains only features
that are available under the Apache 2.0 license.
On supported Linux operating systems, you can use a package manager to install Logstash.
Installing from Package Repositories
editWe also have repositories available for APT and YUM based distributions. Note that we only provide binary packages, but no source packages, as the packages are created as part of the Logstash build.
We have split the Logstash package repositories by version into separate urls to avoid accidental upgrades across major versions. For all 7.x.y releases use 7.x as version number.
We use the PGP key D88E42B4, Elastic’s Signing Key, with fingerprint
4609 5ACC 8548 582C 1A26 99A9 D27D 666C D88E 42B4
to sign all our packages. It is available from https://pgp.mit.edu.
APT
editDownload and install the Public Signing Key:
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
You may need to install the apt-transport-https package on Debian before proceeding:
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
Save the repository definition to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list:
echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list
Use the echo method described above to add the Logstash repository. Do not
use add-apt-repository as it will add a deb-src entry as well, but we do not
provide a source package. If you have added the deb-src entry, you will see an
error like the following:
Unable to find expected entry 'main/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
Just delete the deb-src entry from the /etc/apt/sources.list file and the
installation should work as expected.
Run sudo apt-get update and the repository is ready for use. You can install
it with:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install logstash
See Running Logstash for details about managing Logstash as a system service.
YUM
editDownload and install the public signing key:
sudo rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
Add the following in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory
in a file with a .repo suffix, for example logstash.repo
[logstash-7.x] name=Elastic repository for 7.x packages baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/yum gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch enabled=1 autorefresh=1 type=rpm-md
And your repository is ready for use. You can install it with:
sudo yum install logstash
The repositories do not work with older rpm based distributions that still use RPM v3, like CentOS5.
See the Running Logstash document for managing Logstash as a system service.
Installing Logstash on macOS with Homebrew
editElastic publishes Homebrew formulae so you can install Logstash with the Homebrew package manager.
To install with Homebrew, you first need to tap the Elastic Homebrew repository:
brew tap elastic/tap
After you’ve tapped the Elastic Homebrew repo, you can use brew install to
install the default distribution of Logstash:
brew install elastic/tap/logstash-full
This installs the most recently released default distribution of Logstash.
To install the OSS distribution, specify elastic/tap/logstash-oss.
Starting Logstash with Homebrew
editTo have launchd start elastic/tap/logstash-full now and restart at login, run:
brew services start elastic/tap/logstash-full
To run Logstash, in the foreground, run:
logstash
Docker
editImages are available for running Logstash as a Docker container. They are available from the Elastic Docker registry.
See Running Logstash on Docker for details on how to configure and run Logstash Docker containers.