Vector
Hacker ApprovedObservability pipeline in Developer tools
Free open-source data pipeline for logs and telemetry, praised for low resource use and logging. Two critics report problems they could not fix.
Free open-source data pipeline for logs and telemetry, praised for low resource use and logging. Two critics report problems they could not fix.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 85%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good for logging pipelines
“replaced both Filebeat and Logstash for us with a single binary that actually has sane resource usage”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “I built Vector. Now I'm answering the question your observability vendor won't” “We use Vector and Clickhouse for logging and works really well”
Comment from 15 Nov 2025 in “I can't recommend Grafana anymore” “And Vector for logs, which is also freaking great.”
Comment from 22 Aug 2026 in “OTel Isn't Going Well (and I Made a Spreadsheet About It)” Praised as favorite software
“It is one of my favorite pieces of software, and I rave about it pretty much daily.”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “I built Vector. Now I'm answering the question your observability vendor won't” “And Vector for logs, which is also freaking great.”
Comment from 22 Aug 2026 in “OTel Isn't Going Well (and I Made a Spreadsheet About It)” Low resource use, good performance
“replaced both Filebeat and Logstash for us with a single binary that actually has sane resource usage”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “I built Vector. Now I'm answering the question your observability vendor won't” “The solution to the performance issue was to use a Vector instead.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Java Is Fast. Your Code Might Not Be”
What people said
12 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“And Vector for logs, which is also freaking great.”
“migrated Lambda pipelines to Vector ($60k/mo down to $8k/mo)”
“Vector provides a lot of the same benefits, just as an OSS project.”
“The solution to the performance issue was to use a Vector instead.”
“When they start adding things like dedupe, longer time windows, more data volume or joins, things start to break.”
“has native support for tests which is really useful”
“Instead of generating responses, it executes actions”
“You can go deeper with reasoning to root out the more nuanced waste.”
“replaced both Filebeat and Logstash for us with a single binary that actually has sane resource usage”
“There were many problems with Vector that I wished I could have fixed but was unable to.”
“It is one of my favorite pieces of software, and I rave about it pretty much daily.”
“We use Vector and Clickhouse for logging and works really well”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.