Uninstall Telemetry Pipeline

Use the information on this page to uninstall Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline.

For best results, use the same method to uninstall Telemetry Pipeline that you used to install it.

Uninstall from a Kubernetes cluster

To uninstall Telemetry Pipeline from a Kubernetes cluster, use one of the following methods:

To uninstall Telemetry Pipeline from a Kubernetes cluster using Pipeline CLI:

Delete any active pipelines.
In Pipeline CLI, run the following command to verify you successfully deleted all pipelines:
```
calyptia get pipelines --core-instance INSTANCE --show-ids
```
Replace INSTANCE with the name of your Core Instance.
Run the following command to delete your Core Instance:
```
calyptia delete core_instance operator INSTANCE
```
Replace INSTANCE with the name of your Core Instance.
Run the following command to uninstall your Core Operator:
```
calyptia uninstall operator
```
Optional: Delete the namespace where you installed Telemetry Pipeline. This ensures no stray Telemetry Pipeline resources persist in your cluster. To do so, run the following kubectl command:
```
kubectl delete namespace NAMESPACE
```
Replace NAMESPACE with the namespace where you installed Telemetry Pipeline. If you didn’t specify a namespace during your Telemetry Pipeline installation, it was installed in the calyptia namespace.

To uninstall Telemetry Pipeline from a Kubernetes cluster using Helm:

Delete any active pipelines.
Run the following command to determine which Helm charts are installed in your cluster:
```
helm list -n NAMESPACE
```
Replace NAMESPACE with the namespace where you installed Telemetry Pipeline.
Run the following command to uninstall your Core Instance:
```
helm uninstall NAME -n NAMESPACE
```
Replace the following:
- NAME: The name of your Core Instance, as displayed by the output of the previous step.
- NAMESPACE: The namespace where you installed Telemetry Pipeline. If you didn’t specify a namespace during your Telemetry Pipeline installation, it was installed in the calyptia namespace.
Run the following command to uninstall the CRDs for Telemetry Pipeline:
```
helm uninstall core-crd
```
Run the following command to uninstall your Core Operator:
```
helm uninstall core-operator -n NAMESPACE
```
Replace NAMESPACE with the namespace where you installed Telemetry Pipeline.
Run the following command to verify that the uninstall commands removed all Helm charts for Telemetry Pipeline:
```
helm list -n NAMESPACE
```
Replace NAMESPACE with the namespace where you installed Telemetry Pipeline.
Sign in to the Telemetry Pipeline web interface.
Open the project that contains the Core Instance that you want to delete.
Go to Core Instances.
In the Manage your Core Instances section, find the Core Instance that you want to delete, and then click More > Delete.

To uninstall Telemetry Pipeline from a Linux environment, use one of the following methods:

To uninstall Telemetry Pipeline from Red Hat Enterprise Linux or other Red Hat-based distributions:

Delete any active pipelines.
In Pipeline CLI, run the following command to verify you successfully deleted all pipelines:
```
calyptia get pipelines --core-instance INSTANCE --show-ids
```
Replace INSTANCE with the name of your Core Instance.
Run the following command to delete your Core Instance:
```
calyptia delete core_instance operator INSTANCE
```
Replace INSTANCE with the name of your Core Instance.
Run the following command:
```
yum remove calyptia-core-operator
```

To uninstall Telemetry Pipeline from Ubuntu Server Linux or other Debian-based distributions:

Delete any active pipelines.
In Pipeline CLI, run the following command to verify you successfully deleted all pipelines:
```
calyptia get pipelines --core-instance INSTANCE --show-ids
```
Replace INSTANCE with the name of your Core Instance.
Run the following command to delete your Core Instance:
```
calyptia delete core_instance operator INSTANCE
```
Replace INSTANCE with the name of your Core Instance.
Run the following command:
```
apt remove calyptia-core-operator
```