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Vector

High-performance observability data pipeline

Monitoring & Status ★ 22.3k stars Medium setup MPL-2.0

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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