| Price from | $1,500/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 0 |
| Spec score · Telemetry Pipeline Software | 8.7 (#3) | 7.1 (#24) |
| Configuration | Telegraf uses TOML configuration files, supports multiple plugin instances, filtering selectors and environment-variable substitution. | Pipeline configuration supports YAML, TOML, and JSON. |
| Deployment | Telegraf Controller is self-hosted as a single binary and runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. | Vector can be deployed as a daemon, sidecar, or aggregator, with distributed, centralized, and stream-based topologies. |
| License | The Telegraf repository and license file identify the software as MIT licensed. | The download page lists the MPL 2.0 license for releases. |
| Purpose | Telegraf is an open source agent for collecting metrics from infrastructure, applications, and devices. | Vector is an open-source observability data pipeline for collecting, transforming, and routing logs, metrics, and traces. |
| Security | The maker says open source Telegraf has no native access control; Enterprise adds RBAC, API tokens, and TLS support. | The introduction describes Vector as memory safe and built in Rust. |
| Support | Enterprise Support offers Gold-level SLAs, expert troubleshooting for Telegraf Controller and official plugins, and guaranteed response times. | The community page directs users to Discord chat for questions and help. |