How to get Logstash installer to download to /tmp?

Elastic Stack Logstash
1

I followed the instructions for installing with YUM, published at:

This is the error:

Error Summary
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Disk Requirements:
  At least 297MB more space needed on the / filesystem.

Looks like 405MB on / is not enough for Logstash

/dev/mapper/vg00-lvol1 4912 4246 405 92% /

How I do get the installer to download its files into /tmp? We have 1873MB available on /tmp

/dev/mapper/vg00-lvol3 1984 4 1873 1% /tmp

2 
cd /tmp
curl -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/logstash/logstash-8.13.4-x86_64.rpm

297MB will not be enough for the installation in /usr/share/logstash

Or you can use the binaries without installing.
297MB

3

Thanks!

I was at least able to download the .rpm file into /tmp

[svc_itential@atlv-orch-mdb02 tmp]$ sudo rpm -i logstash-8.13.4-x86_64.rpm
[sudo] password for svc_itential:
        installing package logstash-1:8.13.4-1.x86_64 needs 297MB on the / filesystem

You're right, we are still short 297MB.

We do need to run Logstash as a service so that it can collect logs. Is there a way to do this without full installation?

4

Yes, you can run as binaries
https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/logstash/logstash-8.13.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

5

We need to run sudo systemctl start logstash.service

How do we get it to point to the binaries?

Alternatively, I will talk to my colleagues about mounting a new file system with 700 or more MB on /usr/share/logstash . I'm assuming the Logstash installer is not going to just try to create the /usr/share/logstash and exit if it already exists.

6

In case my colleagues insist on Logstash being installed in a directory other than /usr/share/logstash , how do we install it to an alternate directory path?