Vector: One Agent To Rule Them All?

Vector as a unified observability pipeline for logs, metrics, and traces, with real-world adoption from numerous companies of all sizes.

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1. Vector: One Agent to Rule Them All? One agent. One community. All your observability. Pavlos Rontidis Software Engineering Lead github.com/pront
2. Today's talk 01 Many tools, many problems 02 One solution: Vector 03 Story time 04 State of the project 05 How to get involved
3. N agents → N problems 🙋 If you are using more than one...  Different Configs  Different Failure Modes  Different Resource Profiles
5. Vector, in a nutshell Written in Rust Config-driven Memory safe, high performance Declarative and high level Unified Pipeline Deploy Anywhere Logs, metrics, and traces Kubernetes, containers, VMs, bare metal 100+ sources, transforms, and sinks
6. Open Source, Truly GitHub Repository  github.com/vectordotdev/vector Zero closed-source components  Fork and ship your own Stewardship  Community Open Source Engineering team (COSE)
7. Processing Solutions Parse and enrich  Vector Remap Language offers 200+ functions remap Aggregate over time  aggregate, reduce Sample and rate-limit  route, filter, exclusive_route Tame cardinality  log to metric, trace to log, etc.  sample, throttle, dedupe  tag_cardinality_limit Split by content Convert data types All in one Vector pipeline
11. Case Study: Quad9 Before Vector  4 Go repos · custom dnstap tooling · 2012 hardware Contributing  They assigned one engineer to implement various Vector features
12. Case Study: Quad9 Before Vector  4 Go repos · custom dnstap tooling · 2012 hardware Contributing  They assigned one engineer to implement various Vector features  After • • • Single Vector pipeline 5x faster ingestion New features now available for all Vector users
13. Vector is alive and thriving Release Schedule  every 6 weeks Broad Adoption  Used by thousands of orgs in prod 💜 Vibrant Community  ~160 PR contributors in the last 12 months
14. Unique Contributors 2021 29 2022 33 43 2024 47 2025 47 36 142 total 109 2023 2026 123 total 94 153 total 110 130 177 total 144 68 191 total 104 total (YTD) Returning New
15. Get involved! pront.github.io/maintainer-month-vector-2026
16. Thank You! We are hiring 🎉 Scan to apply: We're saving questions for the networking session right after the talks. Please come find us there.