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by Starlevel004 750 days ago
> And did I say that the Logstashes and Promtails and Vectors and what not pipeline tools with their Grok etc. filters feel like somebody wanted to really make busywork cool.

The worst part about Promtail/Vector is that you have to write code in YAML. Why.

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Vector at least supports TOML, not just YAML [0]

that, plus having support for built-in support for "unit testing" processing pipelines [1] are two features that made me immediately want to ditch our existing Promtail configs and switch to Vector.

0: https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/#formats

1: https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/unit-tests/