Vector
High-performance observability data pipeline
Vector is a lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines that collect, transform, and route logs, metrics, and traces. It acts as an agent or aggregator with a flexible transformation language.
Key features
- Logs, metrics, and traces pipeline
- Very low resource usage
- VRL transformation language
- Many sources and sinks
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Extremely fast
- Single static binary
Trade-offs
- Pipeline config has a learning curve
- No built-in storage
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