# Vector

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vector/  
**Website:** https://vector.dev  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Vector is an open source high-performance observability data pipeline from Datadog for collecting, transforming, and routing logs, metrics, and traces. Built in Rust for performance and reliability, Vector supports 50+ sources, 20+ transforms, and 80+ sinks. It provides a built-in API for health monitoring and component inspection, plus Vector Remap Language (VRL) for powerful data transformation.

## Kin Score — 21.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 19.0 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 25.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Vector Remap Language (VRL)** — Vector Remap Language (VRL) is a purpose-built expression language for transforming observability data in Vector. Provides 100+ built-in functions for parsing, filtering, enrich...
- **Vector Helm Charts** — Official Helm charts for deploying Vector on Kubernetes as a DaemonSet (agent mode) or Deployment (aggregator mode).
- **Vector Health API** — Health check endpoints for load balancers and Kubernetes probes.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Vector Agentic Access** — 2 operations

## Security (1)

- **Vector Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Vector Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (7)

- **Log Pipeline Unification** — Replace multiple log shippers with a single Vector pipeline for all log collection and routing.
- **Observability Cost Reduction** — Filter, sample, and transform data before sending to expensive SaaS observability platforms.
- **Vendor Switching** — Route observability data to multiple backends simultaneously to facilitate migration.
- **Kubernetes Log Collection** — Deploy Vector as a DaemonSet to collect container logs from all Kubernetes nodes.
- **Log Enrichment** — Parse, enrich, and normalize log events using VRL before routing to downstream systems.
- **Metrics Collection** — Collect host and service metrics using Vector's built-in sources and forward to Prometheus or DataDog.
- **Splunk Cost Reduction** — Use Vector to filter and route Splunk data to reduce indexing volume and licensing costs.

## Tags

Data Pipeline, Logs, Metrics, Observability, Open-Source, Rust, Traces

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/vector/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.