(Disclaimer: datadog employee)

I joined Datadog after the Vector acquisition and now currently am the manager for the Community Open Source Engineering team that works on Vector open source.

It’s def. not deprecated, but it did take awhile to sort out. It’s not easy figuring out business vs giving away software for free.

Anyways, there’s quite a few issues and GitHub discussions everyday, in addition to Discord chats.

On the contrary, It's quite active lately - https://vector.dev/releases/

I'm using Vector for my own infrastructure and at work, at the time it seemed the best option to ship logs to various destinations. Are there any alternatives?

If you want to check out OpenTelemetry, Otel-collector does the same job - though it's tightly coupled to opentelemetry