Vector
A lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines
Vector is an open-source, high-performance tool for building observability pipelines that collect, transform, and route logs and metrics. It ships as a single binary with no runtime dependencies, supports a wide range of sources, transforms, and sinks, and can be deployed in agent, aggregator, or stream-based topologies. Vector is vendor-neutral and configurable via YAML, TOML, or JSON.
Vector deploys as a single binary that connects configurable sources, transforms, and sinks into a composable pipeline defined in YAML, TOML, or JSON.
DevOps engineers and platform teams managing observability infrastructure
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- Datadog
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