The missing control plane
for Vector pipelines.
Stop juggling YAML files and SSHing into boxes to check throughput. VortexFlow gives Vector a visual control plane — build pipelines, edit VRL with live preview, and manage your whole fleet from one UI. Self-hosted, no phone-home, zero lock-in.
Streams
Health
Sources
Transforms
Sinks
Native Vector YAML · No proprietary formats · One container to run · No telemetry · MPL 2.0
$0
Forever. No per-GB pricing, no license check.
1
Container to run. Docker Compose up and go.
100%
Native Vector YAML out. Zero lock-in.
MPL 2.0
Same open license as Vector itself.
How it works
From scattered YAML to one control plane
No new agent to deploy. No data leaving your network. VortexFlow drives the Vector you already run.
Connect your Vector fleet
Point VortexFlow at your existing Vector instances, or bootstrap a brand-new agent into a Stream with a single generated one-liner. Vector just needs its API enabled for health and topology.
curl -sL https://your-vortexflow/install/stream/<id>?token=<token> | sudo bash
Build pipelines visually
Drag sources, transforms, and sinks onto a DAG canvas. Edit VRL with syntax highlighting and a live input → output preview, and pull from a reusable transform library instead of copy-pasting snippets between boxes.
Every change is written out as standard Vector YAML — nothing proprietary.
Manage the whole fleet
Group instances into Streams that share a config, watch throughput, errors, and backpressure on the health dashboard, and roll changes across every agent in a stream at once — no SSH, no manual file shuffling.
Agents and aggregators monitored from one place. Metrics via VictoriaMetrics.
What's inside
Everything Vector was missing a UI for.
Vector is a phenomenal pipeline engine. VortexFlow is the cockpit — build, test, monitor, and fleet-manage it visually, without giving up a single line of the YAML you control.
Visual DAG Editor
Build Vector pipelines on a drag-and-drop canvas. Sources, transforms, and sinks are nodes; routing is just edges. See your whole topology at a glance instead of reverse-engineering it from YAML.
VRL Editor with Live Preview
Write Vector Remap Language with syntax highlighting and a real input → transformed output preview. Test a remap against a sample event before it ever touches production data.
Health Dashboard
Per-instance and per-stream monitoring — events/sec, bytes, error rates, backpressure, and uptime — pulled from VictoriaMetrics via Vector internal metrics. Stop SSHing into boxes to ask "is it still flowing?"
Streams Fleet Manager
Group Vector instances into named Streams that share one pipeline config. Assign agent or aggregator roles, push config to every instance in a stream at once, and bootstrap new agents with a single generated install command.
Reusable Transform Library
Save VRL transforms once and reuse them across pipelines, backed by PostgreSQL. No more copying the same remap snippet between five different config files and watching them drift apart.
Enterprise Auth & RBAC
Local accounts plus Azure Entra ID, generic OIDC, SAML 2.0, and LDAP — all config-driven. Three built-in roles (Admin, Editor, Viewer) keep edit rights where they belong.
Zero Lock-in by Design
Everything VortexFlow writes is standard Vector YAML — no proprietary fields, no wrappers. Stop using it tomorrow and your Vector config keeps running, untouched. Self-hosted, no phone-home, no telemetry, no license check.
Pipelines as Native YAML
VortexFlow is a control plane, not a runtime. It generates and reads the exact Vector configuration you would have hand-written — so it drops cleanly into the GitOps and CI workflows you already trust.
Routing & Branch Logic
Fan events out to multiple sinks, drop noise early, and branch on conditions — modeled visually on the canvas and compiled down to Vector route and filter transforms. (Visual routing builder lands in the v1 roadmap.)
How we compare
A pipeline manager without the price tag.
The commercial observability-pipeline tools are powerful — and expensive, closed, and metered by the gigabyte. VortexFlow gives you the control plane and leaves the data, the config, and the bill alone.
| VortexFlow ← You are here | Cribl Stream | Observo | Hand-rolled YAML | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $$$$ per GB | $$$$ | $0 |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | — |
| Self-hosted | ✓ | Heavy | ✗ | ✓ |
| Runs on one container | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Visual pipeline editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| VRL / native Vector | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Fleet management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Health dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| No vendor lock-in | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No phone-home / telemetry | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Per-GB metering | None | Yes | Yes | None |
| Time to first pipeline | Minutes | Days | Days | Hours of YAML |
Competitor capabilities and pricing summarized from public sources and vary by configuration and data volume. VortexFlow is pre-release; feature availability tracks the roadmap below.
Free & open source
Yours to run, fork, and trust.
VortexFlow is not a free trial of a paid product. It is free, open-source software you self-host — built by an operator who got tired of managing Vector by hand.
Self-hosted, always
Runs entirely inside your network. No SaaS tier, no account to create, no data leaving your perimeter. Your logs and config never touch our servers — because there are no servers.
No phone-home, no telemetry
VortexFlow does not call out, check a license, or report usage. Air-gap it, audit the traffic, run it on a disconnected network — it just works.
Zero lock-in
Output is standard Vector YAML with no proprietary wrappers. Walk away whenever you want and your pipelines keep running exactly as they are.
MPL 2.0 licensed
The same Mozilla Public License as Vector itself. Read the source, fork it, contribute back — the control plane is as open as the engine it drives.
Built on a stack you can read
Roadmap
Where VortexFlow is headed
Built in the open, shipped in phases. Here's what's done, what's cooking, and what's next on the way to v1.
Core control plane
Auth & RBAC, instance management, pipeline DAG viewer and CRUD, VRL editor with live preview, reusable transform library, dark/light theme.
Enterprise auth
Local accounts, Azure Entra ID, Generic OIDC, SAML 2.0, and LDAP — all config-driven and simultaneously active with JIT provisioning.
Streams fleet manager
Group instances into named Streams sharing a pipeline config, one-liner agent bootstrap, agent/aggregator roles, and the health dashboard powered by VictoriaMetrics.
Source & sink catalog
Guided config forms for the top 20 Vector components — add a source or sink without looking up config keys.
Visual routing builder
Branch conditions and VRL expressions modeled on the canvas, compiled down to Vector route and filter transforms.
Public launch
Docker bundle, one-line install, pipeline version history, audit log, and the clean public open-source release. CTAs on this page go live.
Give Vector the cockpit
it always deserved.
VortexFlow is in active development on the road to its public v1. Star the repo to follow along — the link goes live the moment it does.