Skip to content

Conversation

pront
Copy link
Member

@pront pront commented Oct 17, 2025

Summary

This branch makes Vector's internal logging significantly more production-ready by:

  • Preventing log flooding by default (rate limiting ON)
    • todo: remove redundant tags - will followup in another PR
  • Maintaining existing rate limiting behavior
  • Improving developer experience (comprehensive docs + easy opt-out mechanisms)
  • Setting foundation for future improvements

Vector configuration

How did you test this PR?

Change Type

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Non-functional (chore, refactoring, docs)
  • Performance

Is this a breaking change?

  • Yes
  • No

Does this PR include user facing changes?

  • Yes. Please add a changelog fragment based on our guidelines.
  • No. A maintainer will apply the no-changelog label to this PR.

References

Notes

  • Please read our Vector contributor resources.
  • Do not hesitate to use @vectordotdev/vector to reach out to us regarding this PR.
  • Some CI checks run only after we manually approve them.
    • We recommend adding a pre-push hook, please see this template.
    • Alternatively, we recommend running the following locally before pushing to the remote branch:
      • make fmt
      • make check-clippy (if there are failures it's possible some of them can be fixed with make clippy-fix)
      • make test
  • After a review is requested, please avoid force pushes to help us review incrementally.
    • Feel free to push as many commits as you want. They will be squashed into one before merging.
    • For example, you can run git merge origin master and git push.
  • If this PR introduces changes Vector dependencies (modifies Cargo.lock), please
    run make build-licenses to regenerate the license inventory and commit the changes (if any). More details here.

@pront pront force-pushed the pront-tracing-limit-flag branch from 3882b2c to 762b078 Compare October 17, 2025 21:54
@pront pront added the no-changelog Changes in this PR do not need user-facing explanations in the release changelog label Oct 17, 2025
@pront pront force-pushed the pront-tracing-limit-flag branch from 762b078 to 1ad0df9 Compare October 17, 2025 22:14
@github-actions github-actions bot added the domain: topology Anything related to Vector's topology code label Oct 17, 2025
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

domain: topology Anything related to Vector's topology code no-changelog Changes in this PR do not need user-facing explanations in the release changelog

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

1 participant