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Vector

A lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines·vector.dev

Free plan · Open source

Vector is a lightweight and ultra-fast tool, built in Rust, for building observability pipelines. It collects, transforms, and routes logs and metrics between a wide range of sources and sinks, and can be deployed as a daemon, sidecar, or aggregator. It is packaged as a single binary with no dependencies or runtime requirements.

What it's for

Collecting, transforming, and routing logs and metricsBuilding observability pipelines from source to destinationRedacting sensitive user information from logs (e.g. social security numbers)Piping Kafka topics into ElasticsearchShipping Kubernetes logs to AWS S3Forwarding Splunk HEC data to DatadogDeploying as a daemon, sidecar, or aggregator for centralized or distributed topologies

Features 16

18 transforms including Remap with VRL, Aggregate, Dedupe, Delay, Filter, Log to metric, Lua, Reduce, Route, Sample, Throttle, Window
47 sources including AMQP, Apache Metrics, AWS ECS metrics, AWS Kinesis Firehose, AWS S3, AWS SQS, Datadog agent, Kafka, Kubernetes logs, Splunk HEC, Syslog, and more
62 sinks including AWS Cloudwatch, AWS S3, Axiom, AppSignal, Databricks Zerobus, ClickHouse, Datadog logs/events, Azure Blob Storage
Adaptive concurrency and buffering model
Configuration in YAML, TOML, or JSON
Deployable as agent, aggregator, or unified architecture
Docker and Kubernetes deployment support
End-to-end acknowledgements guarantee
High availability and hardening guidance
One-line install script for humans and machines
Package manager support (APT, dpkg, Helm, Homebrew, MSI, Nix, pacman, RPM, YUM)
Single binary, no dependencies, no runtime, memory safe
Supports logs and metrics in a unified pipeline
Supports X86_64 and ARM64/v7 architectures
Vector Remap Language (VRL) for programmable transforms
Vendor-neutral, lock-in free design

At a glance

free tieropen sourceself-hostable

TypeCLI tool

DeploymentSelf-hosted

PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux

CompanyDatadog, Inc.

Integrations

FluentAxiomPrometheusRedisClickHouseKafkaAWS SNSDatadogLogstashAppSignalJournalDAWS CloudwatchAWS Kinesis FirehoseAWS Kinesis StreamsMQTTNATSPostgreSQLWindows Event LogAzure Logs IngestionOktaAWS SQSOpenTelemetryDatabricksGCP PubSubAWS S3ElasticsearchHeroku LogplexPrometheus PushgatewayPulsarNGINXStatsDSplunkAzure Monitor LogsMongoDBAzure Blob Storage

Vector

What it's for

Features 16

At a glance

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