vectordotdev/vrl

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Vector Remap Language

Stars: 244
Forks: 130
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 260
Avg merge: 1d 2h
Merged PRs (30d): 43

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
Beginner labels: good first issue

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260 open issues indexed

`uuid_v7(timestamp)` encodes incorrect Unix milliseconds Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1955 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Missing `parse_uuid` / `parse_bool` / `parse_date` in VRL stdlib Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1950 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
`slice!()` operates on bytes, not characters, silently corrupts multi-byte strings Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1949 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 15, 2026
to_syslog_severity should also accept "critical" instead of just "crit" Open

stdlib: to_syslog_severity

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1903 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
FIPS compliance tracker Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1902 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Release tool: checkpointing to resume a failed publish Open

domain: releasing

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1859 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
chore: migrate from quickcheck to proptest for VRL Arbitrary impls Open

type: tech debt

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1851 · Opened Jul 8, 2026
chore(deps): consolidate wasm32 getrandom overrides to a single version Open

domain: deps type: tech debt

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1845 · Opened Jul 1, 2026
datadog_filter: wildcard_regex fails to match strings with trailing newline Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1824 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 17, 2026
VRL code formatter (ergonomics) Open

vrl: compiler

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1805 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 6, 2026
`resolve_constant` on function arguments is unsound/not deterministic when earlier arguments have side effects Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1799 · Opened Jun 4, 2026
`parse_user_agent("curl/8.7.1")` returns `"curl"` as the version Open

stdlib: parse_user_agent

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1693 · Opened Mar 9, 2026
Preserve numeric precision with `decimal` type Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1692 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 8, 2026
`Function::return_kind` should be checked Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1638 · Opened Feb 13, 2026
Support AES-GCM in `encrypt`/`decrypt` functions Open

stdlib: decrypt stdlib: encrypt

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1636 · Opened Feb 12, 2026
Disallow usage of implicit arithmetic methods for std types Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1620 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 2, 2026
Add ed25519 signing Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1576 · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 3, 2025
`parse_klog` fails if the message contains newlines Open

stdlib: parse_klog

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1561 · Opened Nov 21, 2025
`encode_proto` fails to encode a message if `google.protobuf.Struct` is used Open

stdlib: encode_proto

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1560 · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 20, 2025
Testing random functions in unit tests Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1559 · Opened Nov 10, 2025
Add `ord` and `chr` functions Open

vrl: stdlib

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1558 · Opened Nov 10, 2025
parse_key_value problem when value missing Open

stdlib: parse_key_value

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1548 · Opened Oct 31, 2025
parse_key_value problem when value missing Open

stdlib: parse_key_value

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1552 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2025
`parse_timestamp()` function does not honnor all chrono's strftime() tokens (specifically the `%z` token) Open

stdlib: parse_timestamp

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1543 · Opened Oct 23, 2025
RFC: Add Flamegraph Support to VRL Command for Performance Debugging Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1540 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Update `parse_aws_vpc_flow_log` to version 7 of the VPC flow logs Open

stdlib: parse_aws_vpc_flow_log vrl: stdlib

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1539 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 14, 2025
parse_key_value failed when string ends with delimiter Open

stdlib: parse_key_value vrl: stdlib

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1536 · Opened Oct 14, 2025
unnest not preserving root field Open

stdlib: unnest vrl: stdlib

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1537 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 14, 2025
xxHash functions not providing the correct output Open

playground vrl: stdlib

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1535 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2025
Escaping characters in parse_cef? Open

stdlib: parse_cef vrl: stdlib

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1538 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 5, 2025
Casing is slow and computationally expensive. Open

needs: more info vrl: stdlib

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1511 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2025
When parsing a CEF message, incorrect ad fields are generated that contain a dot in the name Open

stdlib: parse_cef

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1509 · Opened Sep 15, 2025
Provide `arbitrary_precision` option for `serde_json` float conversions Open

type: enhancement vrl: stdlib

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1503 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2025
`from_unix_timestamp` should support float timestamps with subsecond precision Open

stdlib: from_unix_timestamp vrl: stdlib

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1478 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2025
Syslog rfc5424 parsing does not accept NILVALUE timestamp Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1471 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2025
Performance bottleneck in kubernetes_logs source caused by excessive VRL BTree insert operations Open

domain: core domain: performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1470 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2025
add a `parse_apache_casandra_log()` to VRL Open

new function

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1466 · Opened Aug 5, 2025
Function parse_cef() does not parsed the string, but on playground.vrl.dev website the message is parsed Open

stdlib: parse_cef

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1454 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Remove all `#[allow]` and `#![allow]` exceptions Open

good first issue type: tech debt

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1451 · Opened Jul 16, 2025
Adding a function to calculate the event size in bytes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1449 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 16, 2025
VRL function parse_tokens does not handle unescaped "\" Open

stdlib: parse_tokens

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1426 · Opened Jun 23, 2025
Allow override grok patterns via aliases in `parse_groks` function Open

stdlib: parse_groks vrl: stdlib

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1429 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 23, 2025
del does not delete specified path during merge Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1419 · Opened Jun 4, 2025
Add redact() hashing with automatically rotated salt Open

stdlib: redact

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1405 · Opened May 21, 2025
Add bitwise operators for integers Open

vrl: compiler vrl: stdlib

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1386 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 23, 2025
Add a dynamic variant of the `exists` function Open

stdlib: exists vrl: stdlib

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1382 · Opened Apr 15, 2025
xpath support Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1371 · Opened Apr 6, 2025
`format_int` bad output type Open

stdlib: format_int vrl: compiler

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

vectordotdev/vrl#1361 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 28, 2025
parse_cef fails on logs with complex quoted values Open

stdlib: parse_cef vrl: stdlib

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1352 · Opened Mar 22, 2025
Byte strings/encoded payloads Open

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

vectordotdev/vrl#1340 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2025

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