Deploying Vector High-Performance Observability Data Pipeline on Ubuntu 24.04

Vector is a high-performance observability data pipeline from Datadog that collects, transforms, and routes logs, metrics, and traces across heterogeneous backends. This guide deploys Vector using Docker Compose with Traefik handling automatic HTTPS for the GraphQL API and HTTP ingest endpoint, plus a working sources → transforms → sinks pipeline. By the end, you'll have Vector accepting JSON over HTTPS and forwarding it to multiple sinks on your server.

Set Up the Directory Structure and Configuration

1. Create the project directory structure:

$ mkdir -p ~/vector/{config,data}

$ cd ~/vector