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The Sematext Agent is available as a package (DEB, RPM, etc.) called sematext-agent:

Installing on Red Hat

sudo wget https://pub-repo.sematext.com/redhat/sematext.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sematext.repo
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum install sematext-agent

Upgrading/Updating on Red Hat

  1. Update the repository file and GPG key: 
    sudo wget https://pub-repo.sematext.com/redhat/sematext.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sematext.repo
sudo rpm --import https://pub-repo.sematext.com/redhat/sematext.gpg.key
  2. Upgrade the Sematext Agent: 
    sudo yum update sematext-agent

Uninstalling on Red Hat

sudo yum remove sematext-agent
To ensure all configuration files and logs are removed, delete the main installation directory: 
sudo rm -rf /opt/spm

Installing on CentOS

sudo wget https://pub-repo.sematext.com/centos/sematext.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sematext.repo
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum install sematext-agent

Upgrading/Updating on CentOS

  1. Update the repository file and GPG key: 
    sudo wget https://pub-repo.sematext.com/centos/sematext.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sematext.repo
sudo rpm --import https://pub-repo.sematext.com/centos/sematext.gpg.key
  2. Upgrade the Sematext Agent: 
    sudo yum update sematext-agent

Uninstalling on CentOS

sudo yum remove sematext-agent
To ensure all configuration files and logs are removed, delete the main installation directory: 
sudo rm -rf /opt/spm

Installing on Debian

echo "deb http://pub-repo.sematext.com/debian sematext main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sematext.list > /dev/null
wget -O - https://pub-repo.sematext.com/debian/sematext.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sematext-agent

Upgrading/Updating on Debian

  1. Update the repository file and GPG key: 
    echo "deb http://pub-repo.sematext.com/debian sematext main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sematext.list > /dev/null
wget -O - https://pub-repo.sematext.com/debian/sematext.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
  2. Upgrade the Sematext Agent: 
    sudo apt-get upgrade sematext-agent

Uninstalling on Debian

sudo apt-get remove --purge sematext-agent
To ensure all configuration files and logs are removed, delete the main installation directory: 
sudo rm -rf /opt/spm

Installing on Ubuntu

echo "deb http://pub-repo.sematext.com/ubuntu sematext main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sematext.list > /dev/null
wget -O - https://pub-repo.sematext.com/ubuntu/sematext.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sematext-agent

Upgrading/Updating on Ubuntu

  1. Update the repository file and GPG key: 
    echo "deb http://pub-repo.sematext.com/ubuntu sematext main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sematext.list > /dev/null
wget -O - https://pub-repo.sematext.com/ubuntu/sematext.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
  2. Upgrade the Sematext Agent: 
    sudo apt-get upgrade sematext-agent

Uninstalling on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove --purge sematext-agent
To ensure all configuration files and logs are removed, delete the main installation directory: 
sudo rm -rf /opt/spm

Installing on Amazon Linux

sudo wget https://pub-repo.sematext.com/centos/sematext.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sematext.repo
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum install sematext-agent

Upgrading/Updating on Amazon Linux

  1. Update the repository file and GPG key: 
    sudo wget https://pub-repo.sematext.com/centos/sematext.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sematext.repo
sudo rpm --import https://pub-repo.sematext.com/centos/sematext.gpg.key
  2. Upgrade the Sematext Agent: 
    sudo yum update sematext-agent

Uninstalling on Amazon Linux

sudo yum remove sematext-agent
To ensure all configuration files and logs are removed, delete the main installation directory: 
sudo rm -rf /opt/spm

Installing on Fedora

sudo wget https://pub-repo.sematext.com/fedora/sematext.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sematext.repo
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf install sematext-agent

Upgrading/Updating on Fedora

  1. Update the repository file and GPG key: 
    sudo wget https://pub-repo.sematext.com/fedora/sematext.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sematext.repo
sudo rpm --import https://pub-repo.sematext.com/fedora/sematext.gpg.key
  2. Upgrade the Sematext Agent: 
    sudo dnf update sematext-agent

Uninstalling on Fedora

sudo dnf remove sematext-agent
To ensure all configuration files and logs are removed, delete the main installation directory: 
sudo rm -rf /opt/spm

Installing on SuSE

sudo zypper ar -r https://pub-repo.sematext.com/suse/11/sematext.repo
sudo zypper up
sudo zypper in sematext-agent

Upgrading/Updating on SuSE

  1. Update the repository file and GPG key: 
    sudo zypper rr sematext
sudo zypper ar -r https://pub-repo.sematext.com/suse/11/sematext.repo
sudo rpm --import https://pub-repo.sematext.com/suse/sematext.gpg.key
  2. Upgrade the Sematext Agent: 
    sudo zypper update sematext-agent

Uninstalling on SuSE

sudo zypper rm sematext-agent
To ensure all configuration files and logs are removed, delete the main installation directory: 
sudo rm -rf /opt/spm

Configure communication with Sematext Cloud using your Infra App Token

Once the Sematext Agent is installed, you need to configure it to communicate with Sematext Cloud. This is done by setting your Infra App token using the following command:

sudo bash /opt/spm/bin/setup-infra --infra-token <YOUR_INFRA_APP_TOKEN_HERE>

If you're setting up the agent in the EU region, you'll have to provide the region option:

sudo bash /opt/spm/bin/setup-infra --infra-token <YOUR_INFRA_APP_TOKEN_HERE> --region eu

You can find your Infra App token by navigating to Fleet and Discovery > Agents > Install Agent and selecting your Linux distribution.

Infra App Instructions

Extra configuration for Monitoring and Logs Integrations

To fully enable monitoring and logging for specific integrations, additional configuration steps are required after the Sematext Agent installation or upgrade. These steps are provided directly after the installation instructions for each integration in Sematext Cloud:

Agent Access Settings

The integrations that require this extra configuration include:

  • Cassandra
  • Couchbase
  • Hadoop
  • HBase
  • Kafka
  • Solr
  • Solr Cloud
  • Spark
  • Storm
  • Tomcat
  • Zookeeper
  • Jenkins
  • JVM
  • Elasticsearch
  • OpenSearch
  • Redis
  • HAProxy
  • MySQL
  • Nginx Plus
  • ClickHouse
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ

Follow the specific setup instructions for each integration to ship metrics and logs from the agent to Sematext Cloud.

Running Sematext Agent with SELinux enabled

With SELinux enabled, starting the agent with sudo service sematext-agent restart may result in an error message like:

Job for sematext-agent.service failed because the control process exited with error code.

Some of the Agent processes may not be started as a consequence. Exact error can depend on your SELinux settings and it can be found in /var/log/audit/audit.log. Using audit2allow utility, it is possible to generate policy package file that can be activated to remove restrictions that caused the error. For example:

sudo grep -a AVC /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep spm-monitor | audit2allow -M sematext-systemd-selinux

You can review the policy stored in type enforcement file (in this case named sematext-systemd-selinux.te) to see whether it suits your security guidelines. To activate this policy, run:

semodule -i sematext-systemd-selinux.pp

If you decide to make adjustments in the type enforcement file, it should first be compiled into policy module:

checkmodule -M -m -o sematext-systemd-selinux.mod sematext-systemd-selinux.te

and then compile into policy package:

semodule_package -o sematext-systemd-selinux.pp -m sematext-systemd-selinux.mod

which can be activated using previously mentioned semodule -i command.

Note: if SELinux is deliberately enabled on your machines, make sure that policy package being imported is in line with your security guidelines.