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    "displayName": "Vector",
    "homepageUrl": "https://vector.dev",
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    "description": "High-performance observability data pipeline by Datadog for collecting, transforming, and\nrouting logs, metrics, and traces. Written in Rust for minimal resource footprint with\na composable topology of sources, transforms, and sinks.\n"
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