Log pipeline

Vector

Datadog

A high-performance Rust pipeline to collect, transform (VRL) and route logs/metrics to any vendor; the go-to for vendor-agnostic routing and volume reduction.

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Category: Log pipeline
License: Open source
Deployment: Self-hosted
Cost: Free
Free tier: Yes
Self-host effort: Moderate
Maturity: Established
Popularity: ≈22k GitHub stars; 100k+ daily downloads

The catch

It's Datadog-owned now — still MPL-licensed and used vendor-neutrally, but you depend on a competitor's stewardship, and VRL + stateful aggregation add a learning curve.

Monitors

LogsMetrics

Protocols

SyslogOTLP

Built for

SRE / DevOps

Ownership
Datadog (acquired Timber/Vector)

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