Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events

  • Perhaps unrelated, but I appreciate the honest performance comparison graphs on this website. Instead of just showcasing how much better this piece of software is, it also clearly shows that there are cases where its competitors are performing better.

    Moet product pages I've seen just want to sell you their product, telling you all about how it's better than everyone else. With graphs like these, I find the product page to be a lot more representative and reliable than other sales pages.

    I wish more software developers would do this.

  • Slightly unfortunate naming, as there is already a Vector project in the metrics space.

    http://getvector.io/

  • A nice discussion here 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20334779

  • That's a nice list of sinks and I see the v0.5 Kafka source is already done a few days ago.

    1) is there any talk of breaking changes on the road to 1.0?

    2) are there any articles about lessons learned from the Timber folks about running Vector at scale?

  • Terrible name choice...

  • No comparison with Flowgger? https://github.com/awslabs/flowgger

  • Impressive! I've been using Fluentd a lot, will look at this.

    p.s. Search for "complaince" and fix the typo :-)

  • Does timber use Elixir for their ingestion pipeline?

  • Of all the things to name a project these people named it after the most commonly used data structure.