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Install Vector on Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution based on Debian. This page covers installing and managing Vector on the Ubuntu operating system.

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APT dpkg Helm Homebrew MSI Nix pacman RPM YUM

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Operating systems

Amazon Linux Arch Linux CentOS Debian macOS NixOS Raspbian RHEL Ubuntu Windows

From archives From source Vector installer

Roles Topologies

Going to Production

Reference Architectures

Aggregator Architecture Agent Architecture Unified Architecture

Architecting Hardening High Availability Rollout Sizing and Capacity Planning

Log events Metric events

Pipeline model Runtime Model Buffering model Concurrency model Adaptive Concurrency Guarantees End-to-end Acknowledgements

Management Monitoring Validating

Vector Remap Language

Functions Errors Examples Expressions

AMQP Apache Metrics AWS ECS metrics AWS Kinesis Firehose AWS S3 AWS SQS Datadog agent Demo Logs dnstap Docker logs EventStoreDB metrics Exec File File Descriptor Fluent GCP PubSub Heroku Logplex Host metrics HTTP Client HTTP Server Internal logs Internal metrics JournalD Kafka Kubernetes logs Logstash MongoDB metrics MQTT NATS NGINX metrics OpenTelemetry PostgreSQL metrics Prometheus Pushgateway Prometheus remote write Prometheus scrape Pulsar Redis Socket Splunk HEC Static metrics StatsD stdin Syslog Vector

Remap with VRL Aggregate AWS EC2 metadata Dedupe Exclusive Route Filter Log to metric Lua Metric to log Reduce Route Sample Tag cardinality limit Throttle Window

AMQP AppSignal AWS Cloudwatch logs AWS Cloudwatch metrics AWS Kinesis Data Firehose logs AWS Kinesis Streams logs AWS S3 AWS SNS AWS SQS Axiom Azure Blob Storage Azure Monitor Logs Blackhole ClickHouse Console Databend Datadog events Datadog logs Datadog metrics Datadog traces Elasticsearch File GCP Chronicle Unstructured GCP Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver) GCP Cloud Storage GCP Stackdriver GCP PubSub GreptimeDB Logs GreptimeDB Metrics Honeycomb HTTP Humio logs Humio metrics InfluxDB logs InfluxDB metrics Kafka Keep Loki Mezmo (formerly LogDNA) MQTT NATS New Relic OpenTelemetry Papertrail Postgres Prometheus Exporter Prometheus remote write Pulsar Redis Sematext logs Sematext metrics Socket Splunk HEC logs Splunk HEC metrics StatsD Vector WebHDFS Websocket Websocket Server

Global options TLS configuration Unit tests Template syntax

CLI Environment Variables API Glossary

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