Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
1–10 of 66 posts
Re: Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
#2What is a high level example of why I'd use this?
Re: Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
#3I really appreciate the comparison table. Very rarely are things totally new and novel so it’s very nice to know what other things it’s _like_
Re: Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
#4What is a high level example of why I'd use this?
This project has a really pretty website to go along with it, which includes a section on Use Cases: https://docs.vector.dev/use-cases
Re: Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
#5I wonder how popular posts on hackernews would be if people didn't mention "written in rust" in the title.
Re: Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
#6Heka, but in Rust instead of Golang?
Re: Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
#7I wonder how popular posts on hackernews would be if people didn't mention "written in rust" in the title.
Probably significantly less, but I suspect "written in Rust" is part of what makes these posts interesting. People have an interest in what you can do with this language they're constantly hearing about (and hearing people rave about). There are lots of incredible languages that few people are using for real products. "Written in Rust" is therefore interesting on multiple axes.
Re: Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
#8This is so exciting! An enterprise-grade solution to log workflow. To those unfamiliar with the Rust ecosystem, this project (Vector) addresses the 'L' within the ELK stack, and probably more.
Re: Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
#9What is a high level example of why I'd use this?
Hi! I work on Vector. For a motivating example, let's say you have an application fronted by nginx. Using Vector would allow you to ingest your nginx logs off disk, parse them, expose status code and response time distributions to prometheus, and store the parsed logs as JSON on S3.
There are obviously plenty of ways to accomplish that same thing today, but we believe Vector is somewhat unique in allowing you to do it with one tool, without touching your application code or nginx config, and with enough performance to handle serious workloads. And Vector is far from done! There's a ton more we're working to add moving forward (thinking about observability data from an ETL and stream processing perspective should give you a rough idea).
Re: Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust
#10Heka, but in Rust instead of Golang?
That's a good way to think about it! Heka was a big inspiration. The design isn't exactly the same, but we're aiming to solve a lot of the same problems.