Vector v0.54.0 released on 10-03-2026
Vector v0.54.0 is out now. Enhanced “vector top” adds interactive keybindings for scrolling, sorting and filtering, making it quicker to navigate and inspect runtime metrics.
Visit the project’s GitHub release notes or the official Vector documentation for full details and configuration examples.
What’s in this release
- Improved “vector top” UI with new keybindings (press “?” in the UI to view available keybindings) for faster navigation, sorting and filtering of runtime metrics.
- The datadog_logs sink now defaults to zstd compression (previously no compression) to reduce network usage and increase throughput.
- New internal metrics: component_latency_seconds (histogram) and component_latency_mean_seconds (gauge) to expose how long events spend inside individual components.
- Syslog encoding received RFC-compliance and UTF‑8 safety improvements, plus a new azure_logs_ingestion sink; the existing azure_monitor_logs sink is deprecated.
Upgrade notes
- Behavioral breaking change: datadog_logs now defaults to zstd. If you need the previous uncompressed behaviour, explicitly set the sink’s compression option to preserve it.
- Migration note: the azure_monitor_logs sink is deprecated. Plan migration to azure_logs_ingestion before Microsoft ends the old Data Collector API (scheduled for September 2026); to revert short-term, pin to an earlier Vector release.
Share your experience or any issues you encounter with the release — the community will appreciate practical feedback on the new UI and sinks.