# Table of Contents - [The Vector documentation | Vector documentation ](#the-vector-documentation-vector-documentation-) --- # The Vector documentation | Vector documentation The Vector documentation ======================== Your gateway to the world of Vector Welcome to the documentation for **Vector**! Vector is a lightweight and ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with Vector’s core concepts, we recommend reading up on Vector’s core concepts: [Concepts](https://vector.dev/docs/introduction/concepts) If you feel comfortable with the concepts, we recommend our quickstart guide, which takes you through a practical example: [Vector quickstart](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/quickstart) Sections[](https://vector.dev/docs/#sections) ---------------------------------------------- [Introduction](https://vector.dev/docs/introduction/) [Setup](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/) [Architecture](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/) [Administration](https://vector.dev/docs/administration/) [Reference](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/) Close docs slideover panel [Docs home](https://vector.dev/docs/) [Introduction](https://vector.dev/docs/introduction/) [Concepts](https://vector.dev/docs/introduction/concepts/) [Setup](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/) [Quickstart](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/quickstart/) [Installation](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/) [Package managers](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/) [APT](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/apt/) [dpkg](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/dpkg/) [Helm](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/helm/) [Homebrew](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/homebrew/) [MSI](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/msi/) [Nix](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/nix/) [pacman](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/pacman/) [RPM](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/rpm/) [YUM](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/package-managers/yum/) [Platforms](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/platforms/) [Docker](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/platforms/docker/) [Kubernetes](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/platforms/kubernetes/) [Operating systems](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/) [Amazon Linux](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/amazon-linux/) [Arch Linux](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/archlinux/) [CentOS](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/centos/) [Debian](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/debian/) [macOS](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/macos/) [NixOS](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/nixos/) [Raspbian](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/raspbian/) [RHEL](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/rhel/) [Ubuntu](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/ubuntu/) [Windows](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/operating-systems/windows/) [Manual](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/manual/) [From archives](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/manual/from-archives/) [From source](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/manual/from-source/) [Vector installer](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/installation/manual/vector-installer/) [Deployment](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/deployment/) [Roles](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/deployment/roles/) [Topologies](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/deployment/topologies/) [Going to Production](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/) [Reference Architectures](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/arch/) [Aggregator Architecture](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/arch/aggregator/) [Agent Architecture](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/arch/agent/) [Unified Architecture](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/arch/unified/) [Architecting](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/architecting/) [Hardening](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/hardening/) [High Availability](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/high-availability/) [Rollout](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/rollout/) [Sizing and Capacity Planning](https://vector.dev/docs/setup/going-to-prod/sizing/) [Architecture](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/) [Data model](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/data-model/) [Log events](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/data-model/log/) [Metric events](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/data-model/metric/) [Pipeline model](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/pipeline-model/) [Runtime model](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/runtime-model/) [Buffering model](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/buffering-model/) [Concurrency model](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/concurrency-model/) [Adaptive Concurrency](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/arc/) [Guarantees](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/guarantees/) [End-to-end Acknowledgements](https://vector.dev/docs/architecture/end-to-end-acknowledgements/) [Administration](https://vector.dev/docs/administration/) [Management](https://vector.dev/docs/administration/management/) [Monitoring](https://vector.dev/docs/administration/monitoring/) [Validating](https://vector.dev/docs/administration/validating/) [Optimization](https://vector.dev/docs/administration/optimization/) [PGO](https://vector.dev/docs/administration/optimization/pgo/) [Reference](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/) [Vector Remap Language](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/vrl/) [Functions](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/vrl/functions/) [Errors](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/vrl/errors/) [Examples](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/vrl/examples/) [Expressions](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/vrl/expressions/) [Configuration](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/) [Sources](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/) [AMQP](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/amqp/) [Apache Metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/apache_metrics/) [AWS ECS metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/aws_ecs_metrics/) [AWS Kinesis Firehose](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/aws_kinesis_firehose/) [AWS S3](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/aws_s3/) [AWS SQS](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/aws_sqs/) [Datadog agent](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/datadog_agent/) [Demo Logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/demo_logs/) [dnstap](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/dnstap/) [Docker logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/docker_logs/) [EventStoreDB metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/eventstoredb_metrics/) [Exec](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/exec/) [File](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/file/) [File Descriptor](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/file_descriptor/) [Fluent](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/fluent/) [GCP PubSub](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/gcp_pubsub/) [Heroku Logplex](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/heroku_logs/) [Host metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/host_metrics/) [HTTP Client](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/http_client/) [HTTP Server](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/http_server/) [Internal logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/internal_logs/) [Internal metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/internal_metrics/) [JournalD](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/journald/) [Kafka](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/kafka/) [Kubernetes logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/kubernetes_logs/) [Logstash](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/logstash/) [MongoDB metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/mongodb_metrics/) [MQTT](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/mqtt/) [NATS](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/nats/) [NGINX metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/nginx_metrics/) [Okta](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/okta/) [OpenTelemetry](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/opentelemetry/) [PostgreSQL metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/postgresql_metrics/) [Prometheus Pushgateway](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/prometheus_pushgateway/) [Prometheus remote write](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/prometheus_remote_write/) [Prometheus scrape](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/prometheus_scrape/) [Pulsar](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/pulsar/) [Redis](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/redis/) [Socket](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/socket/) [Splunk HEC](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/splunk_hec/) [Static metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/static_metrics/) [StatsD](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/statsd/) [stdin](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/stdin/) [Syslog](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/syslog/) [Vector](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/vector/) [WebSocket](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/websocket/) [Transforms](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/) [Remap with VRL](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/remap/) [Aggregate](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/aggregate/) [AWS EC2 metadata](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/aws_ec2_metadata/) [Dedupe](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/dedupe/) [Exclusive Route](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/exclusive_route/) [Filter](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/filter/) [Log to metric](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/log_to_metric/) [Lua](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/lua/) [Metric to log](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/metric_to_log/) [Reduce](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/reduce/) [Route](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/route/) [Sample](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/sample/) [Tag cardinality limit](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/tag_cardinality_limit/) [Throttle](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/throttle/) [Window](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/transforms/window/) [Sinks](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/) [AMQP](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/amqp/) [AppSignal](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/appsignal/) [AWS Cloudwatch logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/aws_cloudwatch_logs/) [AWS Cloudwatch metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/aws_cloudwatch_metrics/) [AWS Kinesis Data Firehose logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/aws_kinesis_firehose/) [AWS Kinesis Streams logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/aws_kinesis_streams/) [AWS S3](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/aws_s3/) [AWS SNS](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/aws_sns/) [AWS SQS](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/aws_sqs/) [Axiom](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/axiom/) [Azure Blob Storage](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/azure_blob/) [Azure Monitor Logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/azure_monitor_logs/) [Blackhole](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/blackhole/) [ClickHouse](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/clickhouse/) [Console](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/console/) [Databend](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/databend/) [Datadog events](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/datadog_events/) [Datadog logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/datadog_logs/) [Datadog metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/datadog_metrics/) [Datadog traces](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/datadog_traces/) [Elasticsearch](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/elasticsearch/) [File](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/file/) [GCP Chronicle Unstructured](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/gcp_chronicle_unstructured/) [GCP Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver)](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/gcp_stackdriver_metrics/) [GCP Cloud Storage](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/gcp_cloud_storage/) [GCP Stackdriver](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/gcp_stackdriver_logs/) [GCP PubSub](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/gcp_pubsub/) [GreptimeDB Logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/greptimedb_logs/) [GreptimeDB Metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/greptimedb_metrics/) [Honeycomb](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/honeycomb/) [HTTP](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/http/) [Humio logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/humio_logs/) [Humio metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/humio_metrics/) [InfluxDB logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/influxdb_logs/) [InfluxDB metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/influxdb_metrics/) [Kafka](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/kafka/) [Keep](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/keep/) [Loki](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/loki/) [Mezmo (formerly LogDNA)](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/mezmo/) [MQTT](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/mqtt/) [NATS](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/nats/) [New Relic](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/new_relic/) [OpenTelemetry](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/opentelemetry/) [Papertrail](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/papertrail/) [Postgres](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/postgres/) [Prometheus Exporter](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/prometheus_exporter/) [Prometheus remote write](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/prometheus_remote_write/) [Pulsar](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/pulsar/) [Redis](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/redis/) [Sematext logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/sematext_logs/) [Sematext metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/sematext_metrics/) [Socket](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/socket/) [Splunk HEC logs](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/splunk_hec_logs/) [Splunk HEC metrics](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/splunk_hec_metrics/) [StatsD](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/statsd/) [Vector](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/vector/) [WebHDFS](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/webhdfs/) [WebSocket](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/websocket/) [WebSocket Server](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sinks/websocket_server/) [Global options](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/global-options/) [TLS configuration](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/tls/) [Unit tests](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/unit-tests/) [Template syntax](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/template-syntax/) [CLI](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/cli/) [Environment 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