Confused about whether to use Vector.dev or the OpenTelemetry Collector for your observability pipelines? In this video, we compare these two powerful tools head-to-head, exploring their strengths and weaknesses through three practical tasks: converting unstructured NGINX logs to structured logs, sending Docker metrics to Prometheus, and exporting traces from TelemetryGen to Jaeger. We’ll dive into their configurations, performance, and ease of use.

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Vector - vector.dev/
OpenTelemetry Collector - opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/

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📌 Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction: Vector.dev vs OpenTelemetry Collector
01:17 - Task 1: Structuring NGINX Logs with Vector
03:23 - Task 2: Sending Docker Metrics to Prometheus
05:23 - Task 3: Sending Traces to Jaeger
06:55 - Final Comparison and Verd