I'm new to Vector and was trying to monitor some of my existing containers, but one of them outputs an empty line of text and this causes Vector to crash with:
thread 'vector-worker' panicked at src/sinks/aws_cloudwatch_logs/request_builder.rs:111:52: payload should never be zero length
I have a very simple config:
sources:
dummy_logs:
type: "docker_logs"
docker_host: "/path_to/docker.sock"
sinks:
print:
type: "aws_cloudwatch_logs"
inputs: ["dummy_logs"]
group_name: "/my/group"
stream_name: "%Y/%m/%d/my-stream"
encoding:
codec: "text"
It's easy to reproduce. Run these command in separate windows:
vector --config my_config.yaml
docker run -it --rm alpine /bin/sh
Then, inside the docker shell:
ls - this works file
echo - this, on its own, causes Vector to exit
Try adding a filter transform
transforms:
my_transform_id:
type: filter
inputs: ["dummy_logs"]
condition: .message != ""