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Automatically merge partial Docker events

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Anyone that was worked with Docker logs knows how frustrating this problem can be. Docker, by default, splits log messages that exceed 16kb. While 16kb seems like a lot, it can easily be exceeded if you're logging rich structured events. This can be a very difficult and frustrating problem to solve with other tools (we speak from experience). In this release, Vector solves this automatically with a new auto_partial_merge option in the docker_logs source.

yaml
sources:
  my_source_id:
    type: "docker_logs"
    auto_partial_merge: true

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