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Vector

A lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines

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Vector is a lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines. It collects, transforms, and routes all logs and metrics with one simple tool. It is built in Rust, supports logs and metrics, is vendor neutral, and provides programmable transforms with clear guarantees. It can be deployed as a daemon, sidecar, or aggregator.

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