vectordotdev/vector

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A high-performance observability data pipeline.

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Dominant language: Rust
License: MPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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Vector `file` source preserves BOM as U+FEFF char and CRLF trailing CR in EVERY line Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

vectordotdev/vector#26392 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
`abort "msg"` reason only preserved with explicit `reroute_dropped: true` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vector#26391 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
`drop_on_error` default value inconsistency with `drop_on_abort` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

vectordotdev/vector#26389 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Doris Sink Error Log in verbose mode Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

vectordotdev/vector#26353 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2026
NATS source declares can_acknowledge() = true while its docs declare acknowledgements: no, suppressing the end-to-end acknowledgement warning Open

source: nats

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

vectordotdev/vector#26345 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Drop_newest discards not recorded in buffer_received or buffer_discarded metrics for non blocking disk buffers Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

vectordotdev/vector#26325 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Unix datagram socket source: batch reads with recvmmsg to cut syscall overhead Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vectordotdev/vector#26314 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 7, 2026
feat(nats source): Support End-to-End Acknowledgements (BatchNotifier) for JetStream Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vectordotdev/vector#26311 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Elasticsearch sink: log the original event content on non-retryable/dropped failures (like Logstash's `:action=>` field) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

vectordotdev/vector#26294 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Elasticsearch sink: `ComponentEventsDropped`/`CallError` reports the full pre-retry batch size instead of the actual dropped-item count after `RetryPartial` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

vectordotdev/vector#26293 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Disk buffer startup fails permanently when seek hits decode error (InvalidProtobufPayload) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vector#26231 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 26, 2026
prometheus_remote_write source: skip_nan_values does not cover histogram/summary counts, stale-marker NaN still 400s the whole request Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

vectordotdev/vector#26228 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
disk_v2 permanently drops and acknowledges all events in an oversized EventArray Open

domain: buffers

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vectordotdev/vector#26198 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
vdev example-config generator emits invalid configs for mutually-exclusive-but-optional fields Open

type: tech debt

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vector#26175 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Semantic meaning is taken from the wrong input when a multi-input transform feeds another transform — nondeterministic per process Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

vectordotdev/vector#26161 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
NATS source: Allow vector to start with unavailable source Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vector#26134 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
`datadog_metrics`: sink fails with `Some(BadRequest)` and drops events Open

sink: datadog_metrics

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

vectordotdev/vector#26133 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
adaptive_concurrency measures the whole retry sequence as one round trip Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vector#26123 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2026
New encoding/decoding codec: Facet, policy derived decision telemetry (about 2 bytes per event) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

vectordotdev/vector#26122 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 15, 2026
windows_event_log: re-subscription drops records when the strict-bookmark resubscribe fails with ERROR_NOT_FOUND and falls back to future-events (follow-up to #26118) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

vectordotdev/vector#26120 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
`vector service install` creates a Manual service with no recovery actions, so Vector neither starts at boot nor restarts after a crash Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vectordotdev/vector#26119 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
windows_event_log: source subscribes successfully but delivers zero events when read_existing_events is false Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vectordotdev/vector#26117 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 15, 2026
windows_event_log: source does not re-subscribe on ERROR_EVT_QUERY_RESULT_STALE (0x80073AA3) and gets stuck in a pull loop on high-volume channels Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

vectordotdev/vector#26115 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
tls_client_metadata should expose Subject Alternative Names (SANs) from the client certificate Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vectordotdev/vector#26111 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Multiple `prometheus_scrape` sources with the same interval scrape in permanent lockstep Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

vectordotdev/vector#26109 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Migrate packages.timber.io artifacts to dd-cose-releases and retire obsolete content Open

domain: delivery domain: releasing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vector#26104 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
`syslog` source silently drops RFC 5424 messages whose HOSTNAME is an IPv6 address ending in `::` Open

source: syslog

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

vectordotdev/vector#26103 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Support for new Chronicle ingestion api Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vector#26102 · 6 reactions · Opened Aug 13, 2026
RPM package uses Debian environment file paths in systemd unit file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

vectordotdev/vector#26076 · Opened Aug 9, 2026
Vector loads entire disk buffer on start up and could potentially cause OOM Open

domain: buffers

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

vectordotdev/vector#26035 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
docker_logs: a transient stream error replays every record since the Vector process started Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

vectordotdev/vector#26023 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Upgrade rkyv to 0.8 Open

dependencies type: tech debt

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vector#26015 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Buffer-full as a distinct DLQ trigger, with overflow to object storage Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vector#26001 · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Mezmo Sink: Log level/severity is not included Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

vectordotdev/vector#25987 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Support overwriting x-ms-version header in azure_blob sink Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

vectordotdev/vector#25986 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Enable opentelemetry sink to send data to to all available endpoints Open

sink: opentelemetry

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vectordotdev/vector#25969 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
ClickHouse sink: support arbitrary query-level settings via extra_query_params Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

vectordotdev/vector#25937 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Find a better home for metrics tied to components' lifecycle Open

type: tech debt

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vector#25932 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Support setting IP_TOS (DSCP) on sockets for network sources and sinks Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

vectordotdev/vector#25931 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
TLS `server_name` override can be wrongly skipped when a direct destination shares an authority with an HTTPS proxy Open

type: tech debt

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vector#25914 · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Debian package: conffile and example configurations are installed under /etc Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vectordotdev/vector#25856 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
file source: `encoding.charset = "auto"` - safe per-file encoding detection (BOM + UTF-8/UTF-16 only) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vector#25815 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Windows service stuck in START_PENDING forever when Vector fails to start Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

vectordotdev/vector#25809 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 12, 2026
UDP socket continues to use potentially broken socket after error Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vectordotdev/vector#25804 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Automate periodic bumping of pinned versions in integration/e2e test matrices Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

vectordotdev/vector#25793 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
vector-to-vector throughput capped by default HTTP/2 flow-control windows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

vectordotdev/vector#25792 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
datadog_agent source: support Datadog v3 series metrics intake API Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

vectordotdev/vector#25790 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Disk buffer for S3 sink is not flushed on graceful termination Open

domain: buffers sink: aws_s3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vector#25774 · 2 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Drop unnecessary round-trip in ClickHouse Arrow encoding Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

vectordotdev/vector#25772 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Add block-level compression for ClickHouse sink (ArrowStream) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

vectordotdev/vector#25756 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 7, 2026

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