Vector guides

Thoughtful guides to help you get the most out of Vector. Created and curated by the Vector team.

Advanced

Advanced guides that go deep on specific features and niches

1. Architecting Wasm Plugins

Build a Wasm plugin from scratch

type: guide domain: transforms transform: wasm

2. Custom Aggregations with Lua

Write a custom transform for aggregating log events into metrics using Lua scripting

type: guide domain: transforms transform: lua

3. Hello, Wasm world

Write your first Wasm plugin for Vector

type: guide domain: transforms transform: wasm

4. Ingesting AWS CloudWatch Logs via AWS Kinesis Firehose

Use CloudWatch Log subscriptions and Kinesis Firehose to robustly collect and route your CloudWatch logs.

type: guide transform: aws_cloudwatch_logs_subscription_parser

5. Merge multi-line logs with Lua

Combine multi-line CSV rows into single events using the Lua transform

type: guide domain: transforms transform: lua

6. Parsing CSV logs with Lua

Parse structured application logs in CSV format using Lua transform

type: guide domain: transforms transform: lua

Level up

Go from Vector beginner to pro! Everything you need to use Vector confidently.

1. Transforming

Use Vector to parse, structure, shape, and transform observability data

type: guide domain: processing

Learn how to manage log schemas with Vector.

type: guide domain: schemas

3. Building and Managing Complex Configs

Strategies for building and managing complex Vector configs

type: guide domain: config

4. Unit Testing Your Configs

Learn how to write and execute unit tests for your Vector configs

type: guide domain: config

5. Troubleshooting

A guide to debugging and troubleshooting Vector

type: guide domain: operations