No. of connections

[email2vimalraj]

I'm evaluating Vector as an agent and using Splunk HEC as a Sink.

I would like to limit the number of connections between the source server to Splunk HEC endpoint due to firewall in between. Don't want to cause any DDoS on Firewall due to limitless connections to flush the data. What are the possibilities to limit?

Also, as mentioned in the internal_metrics source documentation, I don't see any connection metrics populated. Are there any specific configurations to be enable to populate connection metrics?

[jszwedko]

Hi @email2vimalraj !

Unfortunately I'm not seeing any metric for that. Would you want to open a feature request? We'd also accept a feature request to limit the number of open connections for sinks.

I think Vector should automatically deal with the firewall limiting the connections by retrying the requests though.