Vector

Vector by Datadog is a lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines. Deploy this integration to send logs from your Vector tools to your Layerlog account.

Configure Vector

Install Vector

If you haven’t already, install Vector:

curl https://sh.vector.dev -sSf | sh

For alternate installation instructions, see Installation from Vector.

Configure Vector with Layerlog sink

Add this code block to your Vector configuration file. We recommend the configuaration shown in the code block.

Find the complete configuration docs at http sink from Vector.

[sinks.logzio]
  # REQUIRED - General
  type = "http" # Don't change this setting
  inputs = ["YOUR_SOURCE_ID"]
  encoding = "ndjson" # enum: "ndjson" or "text"

  # More information on uri below this code block
  uri = "https://<<LISTENER-HOST>>:8071/?token=<<LOG-SHIPPING-TOKEN>>&type=vector"

  # OPTIONAL - General
  compression = "gzip" # no default, must be: "gzip" (if supplied)

  # OPTIONAL - Batching
  batch.max_bytes = 9000000 # bytes - Layerlog max batch is 10MB
  batch.timeout_secs = 3

  # OPTIONAL - Buffer
  [sinks.logzio.buffer]
    type = "disk" # default, enum: "memory" or "disk"
    when_full = "block" # default, enum: "block" or "drop_newest"
    max_size = 104900000 # no default, bytes(104.9mb), relevant when type = "disk"

Parameters

Parameter	Description
uri (Required)	Your Layerlog region’s listener URL account token, and log type. Replace <<LISTENER-HOST>> with the host for your region. For example, listener.layerlog.com if your account is hosted on AWS US East, or listener-nl.layerlog.com if hosted on Azure West Europe. Replace <<LOG-SHIPPING-TOKEN>> with the token of the account you want to ship to.

Run Vector

vector --config path/to/your/vector.toml

Check Layerlog for your logs

Give your logs some time to get from your system to ours, and then open Kibana.

If you still don’t see your logs, see log shipping troubleshooting.