Logs as a Pipeline, Not a Pile: Running Vector on Kubernetes
Agents that only forward, an aggregator that owns durability, Kafka in the middle, disk buffers on gp3, dead-letter routing for events that fail to parse, and S3 keys designed around the query engine. Plus the three things that bit us: a queue that throttled sends, a metrics label that leaked forever, and two containers sharing one name.
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