What is Vector?

Vector is a lightweight, ultra-fast, open-source tool for building observability pipelines. Compared to Logstash and friends, Vector improves throughput by ~10X while significanly reducing CPU and memory usage.

Reliability First. - Built in Rust, Vector's primary design goal is reliability.
One Tool. All Data. - One simple tool gets your logs, metrics, and traces (coming soon) from A to B.
Single Responsibility. - Vector is a data router, it does not plan to become a distributed processing framework.

You SHOULD use Vector to replace Logstash, Fluent*, Telegraf, Beats, or similar tools.
You SHOULD use Vector as a daemon or sidecar.
You SHOULD use Vector as a Kafka consumer/producer for observability data.
You SHOULD use Vector in resource constrained environments (such as devices).
You SHOULD NOT use Vector if you need an advanced distributed stream processing framework.
You SHOULD NOT use Vector to replace Kafka. Vector is designed to work with Kafka!
You SHOULD NOT use Vector for non-observability data such as analytics data.

Vector is downloaded over 100,000 times per day.
Vector's largest user processes over 10TB daily.
Vector is used by multiple fortune 500 companies with stringent production requirements.
Vector has over 15 active contributors and growing.