What vectordotdev/vector shipped

This week: datadog_agent gains enabled_data_types and an opt-in apm_stats output, aggregate_metrics can forward or drop late events, and all HTTP servers move to hyper 1 and warp 0.4. Removed: the deprecated internal_metrics_cardinality_total counter and legacy buffer max size ga

Changes this week in Vector: The datadog_agent source gets an enabled_data_types option listing logs, metrics, traces and llmobs, replacing the disable_* booleans, and can forward APM stats payloads on a new opt-in apm_stats output. The aggregate_metrics transform adds Forward and Drop handling for late events. Every HTTP server in the http_server, heroku_logs, splunk_hec, datadog_agent, aws_kinesis_firehose, opentelemetry and Prometheus sources now runs on hyper 1 and warp 0.4, and the websocket components move to tokio-tungstenite 0.30. Deprecated items are being cleared out: the internal_metrics_cardinality_total counter and the legacy buffer max size gauges are removed, and the gcp_cloud_storage api_key option is deprecated.

Vector 0.61.0 is out: 24 changes from 10 contributors. Also this week: incremental internal_metrics, a disable_apm_stats option for datadog_traces, warnings for ignored config fields, faster flushing of overflowing batches, correct influxdb_metrics acknowledgements, and TLS verif

Vector 0.61.0 is out: 24 changes from 10 contributors, including 1 breaking change, 3 security changes, 3 new features and 6 enhancements. Also shipping this week: - internal_metrics can emit incremental metrics with emit_incremental. - datadog_traces gained a disable_apm_stats option to send only traces. - Config loading warns about misspelled or unused fields such as request.retry_atempts. - Batcher sends an overflowing event's batch at once instead of waiting for the timeout. - influxdb_metrics reports rejected and failed writes to acknowledgements. - The databricks_zerobus sink enables TLS certificate verification. Upgrade notes and details are in the release changelog.

This week: Redis list entries no longer lost on shutdown, gcp_pubsub shuts down promptly in more cases, Tonic 0.12 upgrade, opt-in TLS reload for the native HTTP 1 client, and MQTT moved to rumqttc-next.

This week's changes to Vector include a fix so the Redis source with data_type list no longer loses entries when shutdown races a blocking pop, and a fix so the gcp_pubsub source shuts down promptly during retries, connection setup, and open acknowledged streams. The workspace gRPC stack moves to Tonic 0.12 and Prost 0.13, and the native HTTP 1 client used by the Datadog sinks gains an opt-in TLS reload handle. The MQTT component switches to rumqttc-next to drop an unpatched rustls-webpki dependency, and locked ctutils and tokio versions are updated for two security advisories.

This week: the OpenTelemetry source moves to decoding.codec: otlp with signal_types, the sample transform gains max_state_bytes (default 128 MiB) to bound per-group state, topology task failures keep source and sink error details, and internal_logs reports lagged events in compon

Changes this week in Vector: the OpenTelemetry source replaces the use_otlp_decoding switch with decoding.codec: otlp and an optional signal_types list. The sample transform adds max_state_bytes, defaulting to 128 MiB, to bound per-group sampling state with least recently used eviction. Topology task failures now preserve runtime errors from sources and sinks. The internal_logs source stops silently dropping events when the trace broadcast receiver lags and reports them in component_discarded_events_total. Generated schemas now describe existing boolean-or-object inputs, and boolean configuration shorthand is deprecated in favor of explicit objects.

Release notes are now generated from release data with a dry-run preview, GitHub notes render from an editable template, and the Debian package ships /etc/vector/vector.yaml as a conffile. Playground editor gains completion, signature help and hover.

This week in Vector: the release tooling can build GitHub release descriptions from the release file, including contributor and change counts and a dry-run preview, and release notes now render from a template that can be overridden without recompiling. The Debian package ships /etc/vector/vector.yaml as a dpkg conffile, so local configuration survives package upgrades. The VRL playground editor gained completion, signature help and hover documentation. Schema definition caches are now populated, which avoids repeated upstream traversal when transform paths reconverge at startup.

Vector shipped: Datadog logs truncation for oversized events, Kubernetes memory optimization, OTel request admission control, Unix socket portability, and better test error reporting.

Vector's latest week brings production-focused improvements: oversized Datadog logs now truncate to fit payload limits, Kubernetes log sources cache per-pod counters for lower memory usage, and OpenTelemetry sources apply bounded request admission. Unix socket configuration works across all platforms, with error handling during tests now reporting ambiguities as config issues. Several crates continue the pedantic Clippy linting rollout.

Vector this week: Datadog metrics V3 protocol, configurable Prometheus headers, file unwatching visibility, improved TCP error logging, and automated release workflows.

Vector ships several operator-focused improvements this week: the Datadog metrics sink now uses V3 protocol with better compression, the Prometheus scrape source supports custom headers, and file sources track unwatched bytes to surface potential data loss. Release automation advances reduce manual steps, and multiple crates graduate to stricter linting standards.

This week: automated release prep, faster UTF-8 validation with SIMD, OOM kill events metric, protobuf error handling that doesn't panic, and systemd socket fixes.

Vector shipped several improvements this week: release preparation is now automated to reduce manual effort, JSON and journald decoding got faster with SIMD-optimized UTF-8 validation, the host_metrics source added memory_oom_kill_events_total tracking, event protobuf handling now rejects malformed data instead of crashing, and systemd socket activation now works correctly with tokio.