Deprecations

The aggregate transform now also emits the failed-updates counter with the _total suffix, matching Vector’s counter naming convention:

• aggregate_failed_updates_total

The previous name without the _total suffix is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Migrate any dashboards or alerts that reference:

• aggregate_failed_updates

The memory enrichment table failure and TTL-expiration counters are now also emitted with the _total suffix, matching Vector’s counter naming convention:

• memory_enrichment_table_failed_insertions_total
• memory_enrichment_table_failed_reads_total
• memory_enrichment_table_ttl_expirations_total

The previous names without the _total suffix are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Migrate any dashboards or alerts that reference:

• memory_enrichment_table_failed_insertions
• memory_enrichment_table_failed_reads
• memory_enrichment_table_ttl_expirations

Stable Vector release archives and packages are now hosted in the public COSE release bucket. The packages.timber.io/vector URLs are deprecated and users should switch to install.datadoghq.com/vector instead.

Starting with Vector 0.59.0, the Vector installer and the download instructions on vector.dev point to artifacts in the COSE bucket. Existing packages.timber.io URLs continue to work during the deprecation period.

The host_metrics source now also emits the process runtime counter with the _total suffix, matching Vector’s counter naming convention:

• process_runtime_total

The previous name without the _total suffix is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Migrate any dashboards or alerts that reference:

• process_runtime

A vector sink endpoint such as 127.0.0.1 without an explicit scheme currently defaults to http. This behavior is deprecated and will change to https in a future release. Note that when TLS is enabled, a scheme-less address already defaults to https.

Migrate by specifying the scheme explicitly:

sinks:
  my_sink:
    type: vector
    address: http://127.0.0.1:6000

The version field selects the InfluxDB API version whose settings are used. It will be required in a future release. Until then, when version is unset the version is inferred from the configured settings.

• version: "1" uses the v1 settings: database, consistency, retention_policy_name, username, and password.
• version: "2" uses the v2 settings: org, bucket, and token.

Migrate by adding version: "1" or version: "2" to match the settings already present:

sinks:
  my_sink:
    type: influxdb_logs
    version: "2"
    org: my-org
    bucket: vector-bucket
    token: ${INFLUXDB_TOKEN}

Placeholders (${VAR} and SECRET[backend.key]) in structural positions of a Vector configuration file are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Current behavior is unchanged.

Affected patterns:

• Unquoted placeholders in non-string fields (count = ${MY_COUNT}).
• Placeholders in map keys (${KEY} = value).
• Placeholders in TOML table headers ([${SECTION}]).
• Placeholders as inline array elements that expand to multiple values (inputs = [${VECTOR_INPUTS}] where VECTOR_INPUTS=a,b).

Migration guidance will accompany the removal PR. envsubst can be used today to pre-expand env-var placeholders into a fully static config as a workaround.

See RFC: parse-first config interpolation for the full rationale.

The series_api_version: v1 option is deprecated in favor of v2 (the default). The v1 series endpoint (/api/v1/series) is a legacy endpoint.

Users should remove series_api_version: v1 from their configuration or set it to v2.