Install Vector on Raspbian
Raspbian is the operating system used on Raspberry Pis. It is a Debian-based operating system designed for compact single-board computers. This page will cover installing and managing Vector on the Raspbian operating system.
Install
- Agent Role
- Sidecar Role
- Aggregator Role
The agent role is designed to collect all data on
a single host. Vector runs as a background process
and interfaces with a host-level APIs for data
collection. By default, Vector will collect logs
from Journald via Vector's
journald
source and
metrics via the host_metrics
source,
but it is recommended to adjust your pipeline as
necessary using Vector's sources,
transforms, and
sinks.
Install Vector
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.vector.dev | shConfigure Vector
cat <<-'VECTORCFG' > ./vector.toml# Vector's API for introspection[api]enabled = trueaddress = "127.0.0.1:8686"# Host-level logs[sources.logs]type = "journald"# Host-level metrics (cpu, memory, disk, etc)[sources.host_metrics]type = "host_metrics"# Vector's own internal metrics[sources.internal_metrics]type = "internal_metrics"# --> Add transforms here to parse, enrich, and process data# print all events, replace this with your desired sink(s)# https://vector.dev/docs/reference/sinks/[sinks.out]type = "console"inputs = [ "logs", "host_metrics", "internal_metrics" ]encoding.codec = "json"VECTORCFGStart Vector
vector --config ./vector.tomlObserve Vector
vector topexplain this command
Deployment
Vector is an end-to-end observability data platform designed to deploy under various roles. You mix and match these roles to create topologies. The intent is to make Vector as flexible as possible, allowing you to fluidly integrate Vector into your infrastructure over time. The deployment section demonstrates common Vector pipelines:
Administration
Start
vector --config ./vector.toml
Reload
killall -s SIGHUP vector
Observe
vector top
Uninstall
rm -rf ./vector