À La Carte Custom Vector Builds

We've implemented a feature flag system that lets you build custom versions of Vector with selected components. This is handy if:

1. You're embedding Vector and you want to minimize the binary size as much as possible.
2. You're security requires are extremely sensitive and you want to reduce the footprint of features that Vector exposes.

#Getting Started

To get started, check out the feature flags section in our build from source docs. For example:

FEATURES="sources-file,transforms-json_parser,sinks-kafka" make build