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You want to go to the project page, not just the release notes for this version. eg. https://vector.dev/ The diagram and succinct summary give you a very high level view, but the Docs link at the top takes you this: https://vector.dev/docs/about/what-is-vector/
I did that, and it's still just some board room speak about cost reduction, novel data enrichment and not what actual it actually does. What do I use this for? I get that you want to sell this to executives, but the people that point executives to products to buy are the developers like me, and if don't understand what it does, I can't see executives finding your product. Just give examples of what on-the-ground prob…
The "collect, transform, and route all your logs, metrics, and traces" bit is our most succinct explanation of what Vector does, but I'll admit it's still not as clear as we'd like. To expand it slightly, Vector is a tool to collect observability data (logs, metrics, etc) from wherever it's generated, optionally process that data in-flight, and then forward it to whatever upstream system you'd like to consume it. It does this by providing a variety of different components that you configure into whatever pipeline you need. In your example, you could use our new k8s source and plug it into our Kafka sink, our S3 sink, or both.