Uninstall LogScale Collector Installations

The following sections describe how to uninstall LogScale Collector.

Important

The name of the LogScale Collector service varies:

If you use Download and Install LogScale Collector Using Curl Commands(Full Install) the services are called logscale-collector and logscale-collector-update,
If you installed using Download and Install LogScale 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 LogScale 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 LogScale Collector - Linux

Run the following to uninstall LogScale full install on Linux.

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

Uninstall LogScale Collector - Windows

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

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

Uninstall LogScale Collector - macOS

Run the following to uninstall LogScale full install on macOS.

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