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title: Installing Logstash
description: The Logstash binaries are available from https://www.elastic.co/downloads. Download the Logstash installation file for your host environment—TAR.GZ, DEB,...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2322/reference/logstash/installing-logstash
---

# Installing Logstash
## Installing from a Downloaded Binary

The Logstash binaries are available from [https://www.elastic.co/downloads](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/logstash). Download the Logstash installation file for your host environment—TAR.GZ, DEB, ZIP, or RPM.
Unpack the file. Do not install Logstash into a directory path that contains colon (:) characters.
<note>
  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](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2322/deploy-manage/license/manage-your-license-in-self-managed-cluster) to try out all of the paid commercial features. See the [Subscriptions](https://www.elastic.co/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.
</note>

On supported Linux operating systems, you can use a package manager to install Logstash.

## Installing from Package Repositories

We 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 9.x.y releases use 9.x as version number.
We use the PGP key [D88E42B4](https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xD27D666CD88E42B4), 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](https://pgp.mit.edu).
<note>
  When installing from a package repository (or from the DEB or RPM installation file), you will need to run Logstash as a service. Please refer to [Running Logstash as a Service](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2322/reference/logstash/running-logstash) for more information.For testing purposes, you may still run Logstash from the command line, but you may need to define the default setting options (described in [Logstash Directory Layout](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2322/reference/logstash/dir-layout)) manually. Please refer to [Running Logstash from the Command Line](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2322/reference/logstash/running-logstash-command-line) for more information.
</note>


### APT

Download and install the Public Signing Key:
```
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/elastic-keyring.gpg
```

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-9.2.3.list:
```sh
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/elastic-keyring.gpg] https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/9.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-9.x.list
```

<warning>
  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.
</warning>

Run `sudo apt-get update` and the repository is ready for use. You can install
it with:
```sh
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install logstash
```

Check out [Running Logstash](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2322/reference/logstash/running-logstash) for details about managing Logstash as a system service.

### YUM

Download and install the public signing key:
```sh
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`
```sh
[logstash-9.x]
name=Elastic repository for 9.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/9.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:
```sh
sudo yum install logstash
```

<warning>
  The repositories do not work with older rpm based distributions that still use RPM v3, like CentOS5.
</warning>

Check out [Running Logstash](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2322/reference/logstash/running-logstash)  for managing Logstash as a system service.

### Docker

Images are available for running Logstash as a Docker container. They are available from the Elastic Docker registry.
See [Running Logstash on Docker](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2322/reference/logstash/docker) for details on how to configure and run Logstash Docker containers.