Vector

Vector is a high-performance, vendor-neutral observability pipeline tool for collecting, transforming, and routing logs and metrics.

Description

Vector is a lightweight, ultra-fast tool built in Rust for creating observability pipelines. It's designed to collect, transform, and route all your logs and metrics using a single, unified platform. Vector's end-to-end approach eliminates the need for multiple tools, supporting logs and metrics, and remaining vendor-neutral. Its programmable transforms enable handling complex use cases, and it offers clear guarantees about data processing. It's highly configurable and supports various deployment topologies (distributed, centralized, stream-based) making it adaptable to diverse infrastructure needs.

Features

Vector boasts a simple, composable configuration format for building adaptable pipelines. It features a vast library of pre-built sources, transforms, and sinks that integrate seamlessly with multiple technologies like Datadog, Kafka, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, and Splunk. It's packaged as a single binary, eliminating runtime dependencies. Its architecture is designed for high performance, memory efficiency, and reliability, capable of handling demanding workloads.

Benefits

Vector offers significant benefits, including speed and reliability thanks to its Rust foundation; a unified platform for logs and metrics, eliminating tool patching; vendor neutrality for freedom from lock-in; programmable transforms for complex scenarios; clear guarantees for informed decision-making; and straightforward configuration via YAML, TOML, or JSON. Its versatile deployment options (daemon, sidecar, aggregator) and wide range of sources, transforms, and sinks support diverse integration needs.

Links

• Home: https://vector.dev
• Source code: https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector