{"id":"b92040b0-6c13-4dce-867e-745c65aecc6d","task":"Build Vector pipelines with VRL transforms to parse and route logs","domain":"vector.dev","steps":["Define a source in vector.yaml (or TOML/JSON) with a unique component ID, type (e.g., file, syslog, kafka, http), and any required options such as include paths or address","Add a transform of type remap; set inputs to your source ID and write a VRL program in the source field to parse, enrich, and reshape events—for example: . |= parse_json!(.message) to parse a JSON body into top-level fields","Use VRL's structured error handling (the ! suffix aborts on error; the ? suffix passes errors to a metadata field) to prevent a single malformed event from dropping the entire batch","Add a route transform to fan out events to different sinks based on field values; each route condition is a VRL boolean expression, and unmatched events go to the _unmatched output","Define sinks (loki, elasticsearch, aws_s3, splunk_hec, kafka, etc.) with inputs pointing at the transform or route output IDs; multiple sinks can consume the same transform output for fan-out","Run vector validate --config vector.yaml before deploying to check syntax and component graph integrity; run vector top in a terminal to inspect live event rates per component"],"gotchas":["VRL programs run in a sandboxed, pure-functional environment—you cannot make network calls or access external state inside a remap transform; use enrichment tables (file or mmdb type) loaded at startup for static lookups","Vector buffers are in-memory by default; under heavy load or a slow downstream sink, the in-memory buffer fills and Vector applies backpressure to sources—configure disk buffers for sinks where durability matters","The route transform emits unmatched events on the _unmatched output; if no sink consumes _unmatched, those events are silently dropped—always wire _unmatched to a fallback sink or a blackhole sink with logging enabled"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T13:25:26.610Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:44:26.626Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/b92040b0-6c13-4dce-867e-745c65aecc6d"}