---
id: guides-ingest-from-vector
title: Ingest data using Vector.dev
meta:
    description: In this guide you'll learn how to use the Events API as a Vector sink.
---

# Ingest data using Vector.dev

[Vector.dev](https://vector.dev/) is an open-source tool created by DataDog for collecting, transforming, and shipping logs, metrics, and traces.

Some common use cases for using Vector.dev as a Tinybird sink include:

1. Ingesting data from a number of [Vector.dev sources](https://vector.dev/components/) to Tinybird.
2. Enriching other data sources with real-time Vector metrics.
3. Aggregate logs and metrics from Vector.dev to Tinybird.
4. Transform and redact sensitive data before ingesting it into Tinybird.

Read on to learn how to use the Events API as a Vector.dev sink.

## Before you start

Before you connect Vector.dev to Tinybird, ensure:

* You have installed Vector.dev.
* You have a Tinybird workspace.

## Use the Events API as a Vector.dev sink

To push events to Tinybird from Vector.dev, you need to configure Vector to use the Events API as a sink.

You can use the following example Vector configuration to push events, in this case Docker logs, to Tinybird:

```
sources:
  docker_logs:
    type: "docker_logs"

transforms:
  remap_docker_logs:
    inputs:
      - "docker_logs"
    type: "remap"
    source: |
      . = parse_json!(.log)

sinks:
  push_docker_logs_to_tinybird:
    inputs:
      - "remap_docker_logs"
    type: "http"
    uri: "$TINYBIRD_HOST/v0/events?name=docker"
    auth:
      strategy: "bearer"
      token: "$TINYBIRD_TOKEN"
    encoding:
      codec: "json"
    framing:
        method: "newline_delimited"
```

The previous snippet uses the `docker_logs` source to collect Docker logs, and the `remap_docker_logs` transform to parse the logs as JSON.

The `push_docker_logs_to_tinybird` sink uses the Events API to push the transformed logs to Tinybird in NDJSON (`newline_delimited`) format.

You can customize the `$TINYBIRD_HOST` and `$TINYBIRD_TOKEN` environment variables to use your Tinybird workspace.

Learn more about other sources you can use to ingest data into Tinybird in the [Vector.dev documentation](https://vector.dev/docs/reference/configuration/sources/).