Vector
A high-performance observability data pipeline for collecting, transforming, and routing logs (and metrics) to any backend.
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Vector is an open-source observability data pipeline written in Rust, built to collect, transform, and route logs and metrics from many sources to many destinations with low resource overhead. It’s vendor-agnostic by design — a single Vector pipeline can read from files, syslog, or Kafka and fan out to Elasticsearch, Loki, S3, and a commercial platform simultaneously.
It’s commonly used as a replacement for or complement to tools like Logstash or Fluentd where throughput and CPU/memory efficiency matter, and it’s maintained by Datadog after its acquisition of the original creator, Timber.
Visit the official site for supported sources, sinks, and transform syntax.