Install Vector on Docker

Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications and services. With Docker, you can manage your infrastructure in the same ways you manage your services. By taking advantage of Docker's methodologies for shipping, testing, and deploying code quickly, you can significantly reduce the delay between writing code and running it in production. This page covers installing and managing Vector on the Docker platform.

linkInstallation

Pull the Vector image:

1docker pull timberio/vector:{{< version >}}-debian

{{< success >}} Other available distributions (beyond debian):

• alpine
• distroless {{< /success >}}

linkDeployment

Vector is an end-to-end observability data pipeline designed to deploy under various roles. You mix and match these roles to create topologies. The intent is to make Vector as flexible as possible, allowing you to fluidly integrate Vector into your infrastructure over time. The deployment section demonstrates common Vector pipelines:

{{< jump "/docs/setup/deployment/topologies" >}}

linkAdministration

linkStart

1docker run \
2  -d \
3  -v ~/vector.toml:/etc/vector/vector.toml:ro \
4  -p 8383:8383 \
5  timberio/vector:{{< version >}}-debian

Make sure to substitute out debian if you're using a different distribution.

linkStop

1docker stop timberio/vector

linkReload

1docker kill --signal=HUP timberio/vector

linkRestart

1docker restart -f $(docker ps -aqf "name=vector")

linkObserve

To tail the logs from your Vector image:

1docker logs -f $(docker ps -aqf "name=vector")

To access metrics from your Vector image:

1vector top

linkUninstall

1docker rm timberio/vector