# vector
**Licence:** MPL-2.0 | **Language:** Rust | **Source:** https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector
## Role
Observability data pipeline
## Why it's here
Collects logs and metrics from everything else and routes them where you want. The plumbing under your monitoring.
## Running it
Started by `docker compose up -d` on port 8686.
```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/vector.tar.gz -C ./sources
```