[mrweasel]

Vector still insists that Kafka is for logs only. Vector is a fantastic project, we have so many use cases for it, but the thing that trips us up is not being able to send metrics via Kafka, without transforming them to logs.

Edit: Awesome, my complaint that you couldn’t scrape the Prometheus federation endpoint has fixed.

[lukes386]

Thanks for pointing this out! That limitation is largely a holdover from when the Kafka sink was written and our support for accepting multiple data types was not as good as it is now. As things stand today, it should be a pretty simple change to enable this.

I'll go ahead and open an issue to get that addressed, but in the future please feel free to do so yourself for anything that's tripping you up! We really value this kind of feedback and try to address it as promptly as possible.

[mrweasel]

Thank you, that’s great. We really do love having Vector available to us, for such a young project it’s amazing that is such a stabil and solid piece of software.

[edko]

Very nice tool. I could find a really great use for it, if it supported sftp sinks. Is that in the plan?