Uninstall Falcon Log Collector Installations

The following sections describe how to uninstall Falcon Log Collector.

Important

The name of the Falcon Log Collector service varies:

If you use Download and Install Falcon Log Collector Using Curl Commands(Full Install) the services are called logscale-collector and logscale-collector-update,
If you installed using Download and Install Falcon Log Collector using Installers (Custom Install) or a version prior to 1.361.1 of LogScale the service name is humio-log-collector.

Uninstall Custom Installations

If you installed using anything other than the Full Install bash/ powershell scripts you must use the system package manager to uninstall Falcon Log Collector.

Uninstall Full Installations

The following sections describe how to uninstall Full Installations on supported operating systems.

Running the uninstall scripts will:

Disable and remove the services
Remove the files
Remove the service user account

Uninstall Falcon Log Collector - Linux

Run the following to uninstall LogScale full install on Linux.

sudo sh /var/lib/logscale-collector/uninstall.sh

Uninstall Falcon Log Collector - Windows

Run the following in Powershell with Administrative rights to uninstall LogScale full install on Windows .

& "C:\ProgramData\LogScale Collector\uninstall.ps1"

Uninstall Falcon Log Collector - macOS

Run the following to uninstall LogScale full install on macOS.

sudo sh /var/local/logscale-collector/uninstall.sh