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How does this compare to telegraf?

https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf

Biggest thing that pops out to me is LUA engine (seems amazing :) )



Telegraf is nicely done. We spent a lot of time testing solutions in our test harness (https://github.com/timberio/vector-test-harness) and Telegraf was the most impressive of the tools we tested, so kudos to the Influx team on that.

But to answer your question, telegraf is very heavily metrics focused, and their logging support appears to be limited (reducing logs to metrics only). Vector is _currently_ focused on logging with an eye towards metrics, but still has work to do on the metrics front.

For example, we opened the door with the `log_to_metric` transform (https://docs.vector.dev/usage/configuration/transforms/log_t...) to ensure our data model supports metrics, but we still have a lot of work to do when it comes to metrics as a whole. Our end goal is to eventually replace telegraf and be a single, open, vendor neutral solution for both logs and metrics.

Happy to clarify further :)




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