# Vector

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Vector and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free open-source data pipeline for logs and telemetry, praised for low resource use and logging. Two critics report problems they could not fix.

## Why people recommend it

- Good for logging pipelines (3 comments): "replaced both Filebeat and Logstash for us with a single binary that actually has sane resource usage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619494)) "We use Vector and Clickhouse for logging and works really well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935504)) "And Vector for logs, which is also freaking great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401291))
- Praised as favorite software (2 comments): "It is one of my favorite pieces of software, and I rave about it pretty much daily." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618750)) "And Vector for logs, which is also freaking great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401291))
- Low resource use, good performance (2 comments): "replaced both Filebeat and Logstash for us with a single binary that actually has sane resource usage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619494)) "The solution to the performance issue was to use a Vector instead." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597988))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Vector", https://hackerapproved.com/p/vector/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).