registry: add vector (github:vectordotdev/vector)

[kquinsland]

Summary

• Add vector to the registry using github:vectordotdev/vector.
  • A PR for aqua: feat: add vectordotdev/vector aquaproj/aqua-registry#53517
  • I would be OK either postponing this PR until the aqua PR is merged, or merging this PR first and then updating the backends field in the registry to include both backends. Up to maintainer(s) and timing on that PR.
• Add an install test using vector --version:

❯ ./vector --version
vector 0.55.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cf8de83 2026-04-22 14:31:18.008404048)

Normally, vector would be installed onto production systems with k8s tooling or other configuration management tools, but it can be useful to have a simple install for local development and testing.
Vector is written in Rust and has a pretty strong focus on making things easy to test/combining tests right along side the code and configuration files.

I have a few mise/tasks that use vector to test and debug various log ingest pipelines, and it would be nice to be able to install and version pin vector with mise for those tasks.

Popularity

• GitHub: 21.8k stars, 2.1k forks
• Latest release: v0.55.0, published 2026-04-22
• Recent activity: pushed 2026-05-09, releases are cut ~ monthly
• Used for: observability data (logs, metrics, traces) pipelines

Validation

Thanks for making it quick/easy to do this :)

❯ RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=1.91.0 MISE_DISABLE_TOOLS=1 mise run build
[build] $ cargo build --all-features
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.56s
❯ MISE_DISABLE_TOOLS=1 ./target/debug/mise test-tool --jobs=1 vector
mise Removing installs directory: /home/karl/.local/share/mise/installs/vector
mise Removing cache directory: /home/karl/.cache/mise/vector
mise Removing downloads directory: /home/karl/.local/share/mise/downloads/vector
cleaning vector                                                                                                                                                                             ✔
vector@0.55.0                       extract vector-0.55.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz                                                                                                   ✔
mise $ /home/karl/.local/share/mise/installs/vector/0.55.0/bin/vector --version
vector 0.55.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cf8de83 2026-04-22 14:31:18.008404048)
mise vector: OK

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request adds a new registry entry for the 'vector' observability data pipeline, including its GitHub backend and a version check test. The reviewer suggested adding a 'detect' field to enable auto-detection of the tool when configuration files like 'vector.yaml' or 'vector.toml' are present in a project.

[greptile-apps]

Greptile Summary

This PR adds vector (the observability data pipeline) to the mise registry as a single 3-line TOML file backed by github:vectordotdev/vector.

• The entry follows all existing registry conventions: correct backends, description, and test fields with a {{version}}-templated expected string that matches the tool's actual --version output.
• The install test was validated by the author against v0.55.0 on x86_64 Linux, confirming both extraction and binary invocation work correctly.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge — a single additive registry entry with no logic changes.

The change is a minimal, isolated addition of one TOML file. The backend reference, description, and test pattern all align exactly with how equivalent tools are registered in this repository, and the author confirmed the install and version check work end-to-end on the latest release.

No files require special attention.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
registry/vector.toml	New registry entry for vectordotdev/vector using the github backend; description, backend, and test fields all follow existing registry conventions correctly.

_{Reviews (5): Last reviewed commit: "Update vector.toml" | Re-trigger Greptile}

[jdx]

does this work?

[kquinsland]

The detect directive? or the vector.toml file in general?

[jdx]

does this actually allow mise to use these files? I suspect it doesn't

[kquinsland]

Vector can be configured a billion different ways but the default is to look for vector.{toml,json,yaml} and it seems reasonable that if those file(s) are present in a repo, mise should suggest installing vector.

But it looks like idiomatic_files is how that's done, not detect: 35083c3

[jdx]

I don't think that's going to work either...