Sources reference

Ingest observability data from a wide variety of targets

Vector enables you to take in observability data from a wide variety of sources.

Available sources

Collect events from AMQP 0.9.1 compatible brokers like RabbitMQ

Apache Metrics source

Collect metrics from Apache’s HTTPD server

AWS ECS metrics source

aws_ecs_metrics

Collect Docker container stats for tasks running in AWS ECS and AWS Fargate

AWS Kinesis Firehose source

aws_kinesis_firehose

Collect logs from AWS Kinesis Firehose

Collect logs from AWS S3

Collect logs from AWS SQS

Datadog agent source

Receive logs, metrics, and traces collected by a Datadog Agent

Demo Logs source

Generate fake log events, which can be useful for testing and demos

Collect DNS logs from a dnstap-compatible server

Docker logs source

Collect logs from Docker

EventStoreDB metrics source

eventstoredb_metrics

Receive metrics from collected by a EventStoreDB

Collect output from a process running on the host

Collect logs from files

File Descriptor source

file_descriptor

Collect logs from a file descriptor

Collect logs from a Fluentd or Fluent Bit agent

GCP PubSub source

Fetch observability events from GCP’s PubSub messaging system

Heroku Logplex source

Collect logs from Heroku’s Logplex, the router responsible for receiving logs from your Heroku apps

Host metrics source

Collect metric data from the local system

HTTP Client source

Pull observability data from an HTTP server at a configured interval

HTTP Server source

Receive observability data from an HTTP client request

Internal logs source

Expose all log and trace messages emitted by the running Vector instance

Internal metrics source

internal_metrics

Access to the metrics produced by Vector itself and process them in your Vector pipeline

JournalD source

Collect logs from JournalD

Collect observability data from Apache Kafka topics

Kubernetes logs source

kubernetes_logs

Collect logs from Kubernetes Nodes

Logstash source

Collect logs from a Logstash agent

MongoDB metrics source

mongodb_metrics

Collect metrics from the MongoDB database

Read observability data from subjects on the NATS messaging system

NGINX metrics source

Collect metrics from NGINX

OpenTelemetry source

Receive OTLP data through gRPC or HTTP.

PostgreSQL metrics source

postgresql_metrics

Collect metrics from the PostgreSQL database

Prometheus Pushgateway source

prometheus_pushgateway

Collect metrics from Prometheus

Prometheus remote write source

prometheus_remote_write

Collect metrics from Prometheus

Prometheus scrape source

prometheus_scrape

Collect metrics via the Prometheus client

Collect observability events from Apache Pulsar topics

Collect observability data from Redis.

Collect logs using the socket client

Splunk HEC source

Receive logs from Splunk

Collect metrics emitted via StatsD protocol

Collect logs sent via stdin

Collect logs sent via Syslog

Collect observability data from another Vector instance