Installed Collectors

Our Installed Collector is installed on your local environment, as opposed to our Hosted Collector, which resides on the Sumo Logic service. After installing a Collector, you'll need to add Sources, to which the Collector connects to obtain data to send to the Sumo Logic service. 

In this section, we'll introduce the following concepts:

Install and Configure a Collector

Install and configure a collector to gather and send data to Sumo Logic.

For macOS

Install or uninstall a Collector on a macOS system.

For Linux

Install or uninstall a Collector on a Linux system.

For Windows

Install or uninstall a Collector on a Windows system.

Sources

Learn how to configure a variety of local and remote Sources for your Installed Collector.

Reference Guide

Customize your Installed Collector with these configuration parameters and options.