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What is Vector?
Vector is a high-performance, end-to-end (agent & aggregator) observability data pipeline that puts you in control of your observability data. Collect, transform, and route all your logs and metrics to any vendors you want today and any other vendors you may want tomorrow. Vector enables dramatic cost reduction, novel data enrichment, and data security where you need it, not where it is most convenient for your vendors. Additionally, it is open source and up to 10x faster than every alternative in the space.
To get started, follow our quickstart guide or install Vector.
PrinciplesThe following performance tests demonstrate baseline performance between common protocols with the exception of the Regex Parsing test.
Test Vector Filebeat FluentBit FluentD Logstash SplunkUF SplunkHF TCP to Blackhole 86mib/s n/a 64.4mib/s 27.7mib/s 40.6mib/s n/a n/a File to TCP 76.7mib/s 7.8mib/s 35mib/s 26.1mib/s 3.1mib/s 40.1mib/s 39mib/s Regex Parsing 13.2mib/s n/a 20.5mib/s 2.6mib/s 4.6mib/s n/a 7.8mib/s TCP to HTTP 26.7mib/s n/a 19.6mib/s <1mib/s 2.7mib/s n/a n/a TCP to TCP 69.9mib/s 5mib/s 67.1mib/s 3.9mib/s 10mib/s 70.4mib/s 7.6mib/sTo learn more about our performance tests, please see the Vector test harness.
CorrectnessThe following correctness tests are not exhaustive, but they demonstrate fundamental differences in quality and attention to detail:
Test Vector Filebeat FluentBit FluentD Logstash Splunk UF Splunk HF Disk Buffer Persistence ✓ ✓ ⚠ ✓ ✓ File Rotate (create) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ File Rotate (copytruncate) ✓ ✓ ✓ File Truncation ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Process (SIGHUP) ✓ ⚠ ✓ ✓ JSON (wrapped) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓To learn more about our correctness tests, please see the Vector test harness.
FeaturesVector is an end-to-end, unified, open data platform.
Vector Beats Fluentbit Fluentd Logstash Splunk UF Splunk HF Telegraf End-to-end ✓ ✓ Agent ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Aggregator ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Unified ✓ ✓ Logs ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Metrics ✓ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ✓ Traces 🚧 Open ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Open-source ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Vendor-neutral ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Reliability ✓ Memory-safe ✓ ✓ Delivery guarantees ✓ ✓ ✓ Multi-core ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓⚠ = Not interoperable, metrics are represented as structured logs
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